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I've heard another thing not mentioned in this video that contributes hugely to Google's failures with social media apps. A social media app isn't just an app, it's a service, and services require continuous maintenance. Apparently, if you work at Google, you'll get promoted for creating successful software, but you won't get any rewards for maintaining it. As a result, ambitious youngsters in the company will create innovative pieces of software, get promoted to a higher pay grade, move on to bigger projects, and abandon their software. This leads to orphaned app after orphaned app. If Google doesn't fix their company structure and culture, they will continue to fail in this way.
Only if you are coming from Facebook. From scratch it was no more confusing than starting Facebook. Plus the circle feature was great as it allowed someone to easily post to specific people and groups.
RU-vid has regressed in that time, because the leader there is a feminist who is easily bullied by outside forces, lies and smear-campaigns targeted at the users.
I believe it will succeed there. There is no widespread competitor to the upcoming Stadia. So if they pair Stadia (cloud gaming) with decent game streaming tools, they just win the market over from twitch etc.
@@raphmateus Uh, yes there is, in someways Microsoft's xCloud service. Stream games to any device. Even PlayStation Now is another competitor. Both of these have been announced either early 2019 or earlier.
@@pbilk Those exist that is true. But none are as seamless as how Stadia looked during the presentation. Let's see when it actually rolls out into our hands. I think Stadia will be decent, and in the end it will depend as well on how good Google is at making deals. Exclusivity deals and games can win over people if done correctly. Stadia will be free (apparently) and you only need to purchase the game... If the only thing you need to start using Stadia is purchasing that exclusive game and you can still play on your favorite machine (ex: laptop). You'll be a Stadia client in no time. It will all depend if we can import games we already own from PS store, Steam etc. Or if we have to buy the title again. I have no idea about that
@@TwighlightLugia Stadia has released for pre-orders by people who can't even do a serious review. Wait for worldwide review. I don't care about a review saying their game lags when their connection is all over the place. Or people bitching about input latency on a first person shooter. Stadia is not for that right now. The only very few reviews of open world games and slow paced games came out mostly positive. And guess what, those are the games you can barely run on your current hardware. You need a 2080ti to run RDR2 smoothly at 4K60fps on max settings on a local system. With Stadia and a good connection you can run it on your PC, or 1080p/2k on your pixel phone or any rooted phone. Most are complaining without even thinking about what it really is. But people do that all the time. So your comment is even more petty.... I'm almost certain you don't even own Stadia Pre-order edition. :) For a person who has no console/gaming PC and has access to good internet. A decent gaming PC is quite expensive, the new gen consoles won't retail for 300$ :) probably the double of that. And they can use Stadia and purchase one, two games for 60-100$ and start playing at 1080p. Or get the subscription like you do already with PS plus, and you can stream 4K. The cost of entry is low, that's it. I already own a PC and console. Why would I waste my time bashing Stadia. It's not supposed to replace my current equipment. When I will face the choice between a new graphics card or console and Stadia... I will look at the games I want to play and see how they do in Stadia. If it's a First person shooter, I will not choose Stadia. If it's a demanding open world slow paced game. Stadia will be a good option. But remember. I can simply purchase one game to test it. I am not saying everyone should go ahead and purchase 10 games for stadia. At the end of the day, it depends what type of gamers you are. I am seeing a bunch of hardcore gamers complaining about Stadia when Stadia is a service for casual gamers. And understand that game purchases revenue is achieved with casual gamers while micro transactions revenue is achieved thanks to hardcore gamers. Stadia is only earning for the subscription and perhaps a part from the game purchase. It does not rely on hardcore gamers.
@TheRealBandito but its lowkey much more expensive than just using cross platform chat apps which is why where i live sms is almost never used anymore even in business context.
@TheRealBandito It seems that no matter what plan they have in other countries, data used on Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat etc doesn't count, so it's basically unlimited for social apps.
Here in Poland we also have unlimited Messanger, WhatsApp and quite big data plans for resonable price. But in US in my opinion mobile companies don't care about free Messanger when most people use iMessages anyway
Not only Brazil even in India. There was no Facebook in India during 2004 and most of them didn't even know fb existed. Google just didn't take it seriously at all.
Gaunter O'Dimm lmao 😂... U have no idea what telegram has been used for and what it's being used for as we speak. U're obviously in a bubble. The telegram I know hosts the biggest ponzi groups, scam groups, credit card fraud stores, hacker groups, terrorist cell groups and so many more 🤣😂
@@gaunterodimm3569 I've personally been on pirated movies groups, ponzi groups with over 90,000 members where over $10,000, 000 was eventually stolen, scam investment website groups and so many more. They are super groups and use an invite link to get in. You won't find them on the search lmao
RU-vid + Twitter + Facebook + Reddit + Whatsapp. Let me explian. Twitter- Follow celebrities. Reddit- Have discussions on Tennis, Chess, Monarchism etc. Whatsapp - Messaging Facebook- Family and friends. I really want Google to buy Twitter, so that my life becomes a TON simpler.
Because this channel has interesting content and your intelligence must be above average to comprehend it and a lot of people are simply stupid. Unfortunately, we who watch this kind of content are few.
It's a shame Google+ had failed. I feel it was quite intuitive with how you organised people into groups: just drag and drop people into circles and then decide which of those circles become "Your circles" (a default group with whom to share content). Deciding who gets to see your content was rather easy that way.
It would have been nice if you could have created circles people could subscribe to. Like "click here to join my politics circle that I share political posts with" instead of trying to figure out what people to add to what content on your own.
Its not a shame, they deserved it. Nobody needed it. They straight up tried to force people into their platform by requiring it in order to interact on youtube. Fuck them for that stupid shit.
So the most important thing now is hashtags? Creators are getting constantly demonetized, whilst other people are copying videos or botting views and subs with no punishment. Also RU-vid is busy in any case, they have to deal with _important_ issues like removing sub counts (which they fucked up and people have 0 subs).
Orkut was quite popular in India. It was just that Google at that time didn't care much about improving it. Slowly Facebook kept eating their userbase. By the time Google realized it, Orkut was dead.
Google, just make a goddamn iMessages competitor, please. Basically RCS but with a Google servers, not carriers. We already know carrier sucks at technologies advancement. So, please...
3 Rules of Social Media: 1. Do not make knots. Don't force people to make an account for your thing if you're using a different thing. Example: Dont force people to make a google+ account in order to comment on youtube. 2. Do not be redundant. Be interesting, be something unique, not just facebook clone #55. 3. The user experience must be good. If it feels like the site is working against you, it's bad.
Google Duo is awesome too. The quality of the sound and the video is awesome, the design of the app is beautiful and it's actually pre-installed in every Android (7.0 and up) so, you can contact people more easily.
It was once popular in Indonesia, but the server is abroad at its peak, causing message delays. By the time they build the server here, it's already too late. Realizing the market is shrinking, BlackBerry decided to sell BBM to Emtek, an Indonesian company. They added stickers, online shopping, online payment and stuff. Nevertheless, it's still failing, so they decided to shut it down completely this year.
Best thing about your channel is like unlike other tech communicators who only live in the United States Bubble, you actually talk about other parts of the world. Hopefully you will make a story behind series on WeChat and how it has become a mega app. It is the culmination of Facebook, WhatsApp, Chrome, Didi/Uber, RU-vid, Feedly, Telegram, Skype, PayTM/PayPal and what not. Not to mention the mini programs section which literally has everything from a stopwatch to a metronome. As far as Google goes, it could have bought whatsapp but again was late. If they bought whatsapp and integrated it with their google services like Google pay, drive and photos it could have been a wechat competitor of some sort..
On iPhone, SMS is bolstered by seeing all recent messages in the notification and very underrated animations and sound in sending and receiving messages
I still remember when i had 9y/o and i had an account on G+, my acc was full of anime vocaloid, i didnt joined any grps cuz i didnt know that's there's groups there, but i really had fun with my friends from different countries, talking about anime and different topics, i miss these day, thanks to google for delete this beautiful social media :)
I believe you forgot to mention that Google had the Social Media leadership with Orkut in it's peak. Orkut was a mark in Brazil's internet history, and I think that Orkut's impact could be better explored and why it lost the battle against Facebook in the 2010's.
if rcs was made 10 years ago, it would have been the most dominant thing ever, literally whatsapp and the likes wouldn't even exist... i can imagine it, bein able text people right on my sms app without having to pay the unbelievable bills
To be fair RCS feels like another TOOL/UTILITY product rather than a Social platform solution. And yes, nobody in India uses SMS for chatting. Only Bank, UPI and other financial messages get delivered via SMS and maybe some other official organizational messages. There was a time when mobile carriers used to sell SMS packs and bundles but unfortunately that was 10-15 years ago.
This is the best tech information channel in youtube. And again - this was so interesting for me even thou I thought that I knew a lot about google. Well.. Not as much as I think I knew. Keep it up!!!!
This is pure speculation, but I don't think Google know how to hire product people. They have the best engineers but they need better product managers.
Another example: Google Trips. It's a great app for backpackers and people who travel a lot. I have used it so much... And I have built all my trips, selected places, made my itineraries and history there. So much information about my trips, it's organized like a travel book (you know like when you collect maps and flyers... Google Trips is like a digital souvenir for me, saving information of places I've been to). Google announced it will be shut down in a month. Kind of annoying.
@Crim Sin Not as easy as that. The reason why Twitter and Facebook look immortal is that it is very hard to make people migrate. I think Google now believe RU-vid to be their social media platform.
It’s weird how the US and Australia treat SMS. In Australia SMS and iMessage is more seen as the proper messaging service. A lot of my friends have other messaging services but we often use SMS because it feels more personal. You don’t want a possible partner’s Facebook username or Line or Wechat IDs you want their phone number for your default messenger. In my experience.
WhatsApp actually uses your phone number to sign up. During the process, you add a name for yourself and (optionally) a photo. For others, you can choose what their name will be since it synchronises with your phone's contacts.
@@garritorious7587 Sure, but I was referring to the last bit in your comment about how you feel that SMS is more personal, because it uses people's phone number. Other messaging services can be just as personal. I'd argue that it can be even more personal, because you get to choose things like a custom name, photo etc. Not to mention how in countries where such services are the norm, phone numbers are not primarily used for phone calls or SMS.
Orkut was gigant here in Brazil! It even had a cable tv program called "Orkut Live" where musicians and bands would do interviews and you could get emblems in the site.
Thank god they failed. I really don't want to send more of my data to Google. That company is so immature that they're actively blocking New Edge from accessing their services (meet, docs and drive).
They aren't actively blocking Edge from accessing services - it's been said they just have an "allow" list that they haven't updated yet. However, Google is notorious for crippling non-Chromium browsers like Firefox and Edge (to the point that Edge had to switch browser engines). At least Google doesn't have control over the entire internet, but it's insane how they're tricking people into thinking that Firefox and Edge are slow by crippling their speeds. I find it sad that they've forced Edge to surrender and become yet another Chromium browser thanks to these anti-competitive tricks.
But you would rather send your data to Facebook by using FB and WhatsApp. 😂😂 Bro, Google uses your data for making money, true, but they can be considered as a far lesser evil when you look at offenders like Facebook and Snap. Specially leakage of data, and data breaches and malpractices of securing confidential data. SMH
Oh my god I remember how much I fell in love with Orkut just as it was its last few days, can't remember weather it was Google bought it and planned to put utilise it elsewhere like Picasa or something.. Oh and Buzz! 😂😂 I remember it, iGoogle? Anyone? Having your own cool custom Google page with backgrounds and widgets. See G+ was amazing at first, I tried getting all the lads to move over and have hangouts for our group chat instead of WhatsApp, since we all had Gmail and YT, we all had to change our numbers to avoid paying for WhatsApp but in the end, they didn't want it, they just didn't feel it and over the years G+ simply became a dumping ground for YT posts, explicit photos EVERYWHERE and trash in general, it's a shame, it seems they can never get it right.
I used iGoogle until the bitter end. A google search bar, my gmail inbox, a quick news feed, a weather synopsis, and a pleasant background that reacted to the time of day. iGoogle was my last homepage; when it shut down, I stopped using home pages entirely.
@@thegardenofeatin5965 I used to love it, I'd 'wow' my friends with it every time haha Of course home pages would never be the same. Shame they shut things down that are great, like recently inbox for gmail.
I also have a suspicion this is in part deliberate if they have a successful social platform or even chat platform. The calls for them to be broken up as a monopoly would become even louder. And they’re already very loud.
RCS is a bad system BECAUSE it uses carriers. They COULD cost extra. If not as RCS, then at least if SMS/MMS fallback (which will be the case almost constantly due to incompetent carriers) is in use.
I mean there's always *Facebook* it's almost a social requirement for most people under 60 to have a FB now if you have a huge "friend's list" but are only really friends with like 10% of them... then that's on you and perhaps you need to do a little 'spring cleaning'
If you haven't, could you do a story behind on how github became such a massive success? (compared to other similar platforms like bit bucket, gitlab etc.)
google wave was a funny nice experiment .. very geeky but it lacked something (about natural human comunication) xD it was like a game with very interesting mechanics, on paper, but that is a pain to actually play with.. maybe it could be upgraded....
I have never had issues with notifications but I know ppl who have. Otherwise it is pretty basic...looks like an app from 5 years ago. But I do think there are companies using it. My brothers whole company ...quite large ...uses g suite and Hangouts extensively. Leaves much to be desired tho.
@@2hedz77 Quite the contrary, I don't know of a chat product that is as advanced as hangouts. Let me explain. Where Hangouts really shines is integration. You have it in Gmail, so you don't need an extra window/application for chat. But more importantly it is integrated with calendar. Every event in your calendar automatically has a hangouts meeting. So there is no struggle, of who starts a video call, then invites everyone, etc. Every meeting automatically has one. It gets even better, because there is also meeting room hardware that lets you hook up TVs in meeting rooms to G-Suite. When you book a meeting room for a calendar event, the TV in that room is automatically aware of the hangouts call for that meeting, so you when you get to the meeting room you only need to click one button and you automatically have the correct video call running on that screen. No laptops required, but you can just use the link in the calendar to share your laptop screen into that meeting. I currently don't know of any competitor who has such features, especially if you are already using G-Suite anyway.
Can you make a video on how Facebook is able to rule over social media platform. Anyway I don't think chat can ever beat slack. Teams can but not chat.
I started using google messages on mobile in 2010. It could text other phones or other people's apps. Got rebranded as hangouts, but it has existed for a lot longer than 2013.
When you've mentioned Google focussing on business oriented apps, my mind jumped straight to project management. So far, G-Suite and Google Drive overall lacks a seamless project management experience from my use with these services. Other than making spreadsheets and group email listings, there's not much you can do that offers an experience like other project management services like Monday.com or Trello. I'm making do with Google Drive, Notion, OpenProject and Wave as my apps of choice for project management and self-accounting but it would be nice if Google had better proprietary apps that intergrate with Google Calendar, Docs, Drive, etc.
Finally a video that's about something besides smartphones! I love it! Seriously, dude, great video. I don't know what to say except I loved it. This is the type of content I subscribed for! ❤️
They never had coding abilities. Its just government backed funds and buying already successful projects like RU-vid. Their social app attempts were riddled with exploits and lack of user friendly interface
I just wish they'd not get rid of Hangouts. I use the app everyday SMS and everything else. All my messages sync across my computer, laptop, table, and phones.
Finally, someone dissected the problem. With that said, Hangouts was (once upon a time) an amazing messaging service that combined chat, text, voice, and video; then Google git rid of it, and the reason is really anyone's guess. Also, @1:16, you left out Google Voice.
