I&#x27;m not really trying to say anything about the quality of these products at launch compared to competitors.  The parent post made a claim that since there was already a lot of innovative products available Google can&#x27;t do anything special by launching similar applications. I say that&#x27;s completely off base when you look at the product that made Google one of the largest tech companies in the world fits exactly into this category.  It was not doing anything fundamentally different from other search engines at the time. It just did in a much better way, so much so that people overwhelmingly switched; and they were able to make way more money of these users as well.