#2 2009-04-14 18:11:27
There are major differences here, for the most part no one has ever had to pay for a google product. AOL was charging people up the ass. This is a ridiculous comparison.
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#3 2009-04-14 18:33:22
I read the article and couldn't see a single concrete example of what the writer described as Google's "arrogance and defensive pride". There might be something to it but you couldn't tell from anything he detailed in the article...
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#4 2009-04-14 20:50:55
Zookeeper wrote:
I read the article and couldn't see a single concrete example of what the writer described as Google's "arrogance and defensive pride". There might be something to it but you couldn't tell from anything he detailed in the article...
Maybe "TheDailyBeast" is a shadow company of Microsoft.
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#5 2009-04-15 01:41:05
Look - say what you will, but I will listen to the streets. When my middle-schooler derisively called Google the "Walmart of the internet" and stated "everything is there but you can't find any of it"; well that really opened my eyes.
The oncoming generation has dismissed them, just as the did AOL, etc.
Party over
Find a real revenue stream
When the incoming consumers hate you and compare you to McDonalds, it's over.
Nothing against the Googlians here, y'all did a wonderful, amazing job. But Google is now the overbearing, over-weight and over-paid twentysomething that all of us hate. And they will soon be the out of work, whiney thirtysomething all of us detest.
Time to sharpen up that resume...
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