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0 pointsportLAN18y ago0 comments

It reads like a marketing pitch to acquirers -- "don't build, buy! Look at this one, a 2.0 webby thingamajig, ain't she a beaut? Only nine ninety nine nine nine nine ninety-nine. Hardly any miles!"

Google sure seems to have a lot of success developing apps in-house, and due to integration requirements this makes a lot more sense in many cases. An outside party would simply be unable to provide an optimal solution in those instances. E.g., Kiko.

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pg18y ago· 2 in thread

> Google sure seems to have a lot of success developing apps in-house

Bad choice of examples. Google is by far the biggest buyer of small startups. They just don't publicize it.

portLANOP18y ago

Everyone wants to get acquired by Google, and yet it doesn't stop them doing their own stuff in-house. Unless AdSense, GMail, Calendar, News, Froogle, Video, Finance, etc. were bought instead of built.

Not to mention all the work that happened after they bought Keyhole et al.

staunch18y ago

AdSense was at least partially an acquisition. Video became YouTube. Froogle is largely a failure. Considering how many programmers Google has your argument that they're good at producing stuff in-house is pretty weak. They're great at scaling and running stuff, but so far they don't seem to be very much better at creating new great things than any big company is.

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