[joshstrange]

Does google even understand how much they've screwed up chat? (text, voice, or video?)

Every time this comes up I can't help but shake my head and wonder how they dropped the ball so bad, so many times. I understand the whole "release a new product to climb the ladder"-problem but are the top-level execs really so blind that they continue to make the same mistakes (or allow it happen) over and over again?

Google Wallet/Pay/"whatever it's called this week" has the same issues. It's just astounding to me.

[netsharc]

I presume inside Google it's a brawl of teams competing with each other, and if I had to guess the project managers probably lobby the execs hard to ensure their app survives...

I wanted to quickly find the story of how inside Microsoft the teams were also at war with each other, IIRC it was the Windows team vs the Office team, results of putting the query "microsoft insider competition windows team vs office team" in Google or DuckDuckGo:

- Links/articles about Microsoft Teams

- Links/articles about Windows/Office Insider (ie. their beta program?).