> It's likely not google get bored, but users didn't adapt product on large enough scale.
What exactly is a "large enough scale"?
The mentality that a project is a failure unless it achieves exponential growth and massive world-eating scale needs to die in a fire.
Even small things have value, and one of the few good things about massive corporations is they have the resources to do a lot small things well. When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated.
> Even small things have value, and one of the few good things about massive corporations is they have the resources to do a lot small things well. When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated.
I like to think I understand the sentiment, but I think the reality is a bit more nuanced than that.
Inbox and GMail in all likeliness are in the same product area (PA) and thus at some point in the chain they report to the same person.
That being the case, if Inbox takes even 1/2 the time of this manager that GMail takes, then it's really not worth it because GMail easily has more than 10x the users.
My guess is that they will try to take all the things people liked about Inbox and bring them to GMail over time. They probably want to shut down Inbox before that happens so they can use more engineering resources to make that transition more quickly and also so that the tech stack is simpler by not having to support two different products.
> When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated.
probably less than half of them are engineers, and about 20% of them are capable to build complex systems. And now Google has quite long list of technologically complex products: search, ads, youtube, android. I think density of complex projects per capita may be much higher at Google than in other companies.
What exactly is a "large enough scale"?
The mentality that a project is a failure unless it achieves exponential growth and massive world-eating scale needs to die in a fire.
Even small things have value, and one of the few good things about massive corporations is they have the resources to do a lot small things well. When you have 85,000 employees, focus is overrated.