Came across a section that I thought was pertinent to all the speculation on Android tablets and whether or not Chrome OS will ever be employed:
Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president for search products and user experience, believes that the company’s future success hinges on innovation. She encourages risk-taking and readily acknowl- edges that 60–80% of the company’s new products will fail. However, creating an organizational culture that embraces failure also helps produce the new product introductions that should sustain the company’s future sales growth (Garrison, Ray H.. Managerial Accounting, 13th Edition. McGraw-Hill Higher Education/CourseSmart, 02/13/2009. 520) So I guess to Google it's to be expected for things like Wave to utterly flop. I guess Google is the true antithesis to Apple; Apple is elegant, all products are seamlessly integrated, and control of the product line is about as central as you can get where Google's products are utilitarian, hardware is farmed out to any manufacturer that is interested (and software is freely altered and adapted), and the strategy seems to be let the engineers roam free and see what of the things they come up with stick. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
