Google App Maker Shutting Down
Google, by thinking so short term, has knee-capped any developer and engineering good will for their platforms. Today's version of Microsoft is who Google should be right now, but somehow we wound up in a different timeline. Could you have imagined these roles switched back in 2005?<p>Imagine if someone comes along and takes away Google's search business? At this point, their results are such a trash fire it can't be <i>that</i> hard. And if that happens, they've got nothing, because they've been lazy and arrogant (or at least appear that way to an outside observer).<p>I'm long MSFT, but definitely not GOOG. It feels like the unhealthiest FAANG. Their culture is in turmoil, they rely on one product that can be duplicated, and they routinely spurn the rest of the world.<p>Edit: this might be my most controversial HN comment to date. It's constantly bouncing between 2 and -2.