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I actually agree with what is written above. See the recent news coming out about Blogger and Picasa being retired, so it is only natural that new product development will be heavily impacted, if not entirely determined by + and only +. Though I wouldn't characterize this as the "start of the end" for Google, it is the "end of the rise and rise of Google". As with MSFT, what Google has done is that by its own actions of diversification and consolidation, it has created a space for another player who will win by keeping it "clean" in developing apps that do their "one thing" right rather than fit into the + framework AND do that "one thing" right.
alain250sxf · 4671 days ago · link ·
This is pretty contradictory... Blogger and Picasa were two "clean" applications that are being retired. They focused on one thing and did it right. Yet they weren't succesful in the longterm. I don't think Google is trying to be anything and everything, it's just building the framework to make it possible for other companies and programmers to add their specific and "clean" apps. This will create a constant expansion and evolution with the needs of the users. And I'm pretty sure they will make it the open source concept that Android is, and Android seems to work wonders because of it.
I for one welcome to consolidated approach, where one thing works with the next, as long as they don't also take the propriatery approach like Apple.
See the recent news coming out about Blogger and Picasa being retired
Very true. To be fair, I think these could be considered social services that fall directly under the umbrella; however, how large will the umbrella become as Ad revenue from Google+ grows?
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alain250sxf · 4671 days ago · link ·
This is an extremely good point... Hopefully it will be much like iGoogle or Android, where the user creates and customizes the interface to make it cater to his/her needs.