[savanaly]

I am curious about the reason for the repeated potshots at Google Sheets. The way he talks about it he's playing the taunts for laughs, but usually there's an interesting story or grain of truth behind something like that.

I do notice the big google watermark in the top left of the video so at first I thought maybe he was doing this presentation for some google engineers and playfully poking fun, but the description says this is a presentation he gave for the benefit of his companies Fog Creek and Trello. So I don't know.

[jthomas0717]

Joel worked for Microsoft on the Excel team so it's probably a combination of professional pride and playfulness.

[gk1]

The Google watermark is there because this was recorded using Hangouts on Air.

[Pica_soO]

You know, how google walked into the whole GIS and Geography business and clicked its heels together once - closing the shop. I guess the very same thing is going on here- wounded pride. We fought and worked to make this happen- you can not give it away for free.

[jeremy_wiebe]

Is that really true though? As far as I know ESRI is still alive and doing quite well.

[roel_v]

I think the gp means that Google came in gis, looked around and decided 'nope, nothing for us here', and left? I mean, there's google maps, but that's it - while widely used, not exactly special.

[bitwize]

Google Sheets isn't running large chunks of the world economy yet. Maybe he'll stop mocking it when it is.