No. I've figured out their business plan: Advertisement. They agree
and are very public about it.
Its their "architecture" I don't get.
Here's a good post to the earlier /. suggested read. Note the third
paragraph about tying it together. Yes, I'd love a "desktop in the
sky" usable on everything in my digital kit bag (TV, phone, computer,
iPad, ...) but so far Google isn't even close in terms of coherence.
<quote>
The innovation comes in how this all ties together. Google Mail + Buzz
+ Wave + Contacts (Yes contacts is its own thing.) Voice + Talk + Maps
+ Chat + Calendar + (Maybe docs, it still blows though) + Search = One
hell of a system of tools to organize and manage how you do "stuff"
And when you start integrating that into phones, netbooks (Think
Chrome OS) + your traditional web browser you can do some pretty cool
stuff.
However right now Google's biggest challenge is tying all this stuff
together. Calendar + Groups? Maps + Gmail? Buzz + Calendar? Not even
remotely tied together.
Lets be blunt here. The above Facebook has nothing like this. MS
doesn't either. Google is creating a virtual desktop. That is all
there is to it.
</quote>
-- Owen
On Feb 10, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
All I can say is that it (the apparent random approach to producing
products and product support) is working, and I wish I had bought
goog at its IPO.
I'm serious too: you're complaining that you can't figure out
Google's business plan, and I'm complaining that their business plan
(whatever it is) has been so successful that the company is
wallowing in money, none of which I got. Not only has Google been
hugely successful with their business plan (whatever it is), they
have that other behemoth money factory, M$, running scared.
I'm not going to pretend to be able to describe, justify, dissect,
or pontificate upon Goog's business plan, other than to observe that
it has been hugely successful.
--Doug
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Owen Densmore
<o...@backspaces.net> wrote:
On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
They are going to continue down that very same road which has taken
them to all those multi billions of dollars which they keep stuffing
into their overflowing coffers. Why kill the goose that keeps
laying all of those delicious golden eggs?
And that is? Can you describe "that very same road"? I'm serious.
As far as I can see its near-random.
-- Owen
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