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by enos_feedler
1576 days ago
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This is a good point. A project within Google that doesn’t move the needle next to it’s search advertising business should not be _driven_ by profit margin. However there are a few reasons why I think this happened within Google Play: 1. Lots of pressure for google products and services to become standalone businesses 2. Too much imbalance of power between business teams and engineering teams within Google Play. The business teams just saw it as copycat App Store and the engineers and product leads didn’t have the influence to overturn this. In some ways this is against what the broader Google culture was thought to have. (Eng/prod > bd). 3. Androids existence as a defense and not as an opportunity to create the future. Android has always been this and it’s engrained culturally. |
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