But I agree, Google+ sucked. Also, if you are content creator, you really should post on your own website first, and then republish the content on sites like Medium, Google+ etc.
The easiest task is syndicate over other platforms like medium were you can find more people instead of just waiting to people to arrive via google.
> Now, Google is going to flush all my work down the toilet.
This is hyperbolic. Unless I'm misunderstanding, the thing this person does is write words and words are easily transported to some other publishing platform.
Exporting a large body of work is not trivial if you don't know how to do it programatically. Heck, even a blog migration from Blogger to Wordpress isn't flawless, for me it failed to import comments correctly so I lost those.
So, while I agree with your overall sentiment, I can't avoid feeling a bit of pain on behalf of the authors that need to move their work now.
It’s not Yahoo. It’s not even close.
JP Morgan Chase seems more like Yahoo. Trying to buy their way out of becoming obsolete as their industry transforms.
Hell, killing off apps is certainly much more about innovation that otherwise. Why would you think that supporting legacy apps means innovation? They can certainly handle it better, but Google tends to be pretty aggressive in how it develops software.
Google does so many other interesting, aggressive things that I think the comparison falls flat beyond that first, shallow point.
I appreciate pruning away mediocre products.
We did?
If you only posted content to Google+ you placed all of your eggs in a single basket.
Being successful in innovation is admitting when things are not taking off and letting products die, no matter how big they are.
Without having the numbers, really hard to justify any argument here.
Unfortunate because I'd be interested in that type of article because it differs so much from how I see it.
Mobile is the new '90s desktop market
