🔗 The Mediocrity of Modern Google
But here’s the thing about tech – and I’ve been saying this for years – technology’s self-obsolescence is a more effective regulator than any government agency. Google, despite its trillion-dollar market cap and infrastructure advantages, risks becoming the first of the mega-caps to fade into irrelevance as the internet evolves beyond the “10 blue links” paradigm that made it a giant.
Me - never been overly into the land of Google. Yes - I have an account - and of course I have Google Drive - but it is not my ‘go to’ - unless I am forced into it because a business I am working with has decided it hates Microsoft and has enabled Google. I do think it is hard to beat their ‘office suite’ - for the collaboration part of it - BUT I would never consider writing a doc or knocking out a spreadsheet on Google if I wasn’t expecting somebody to be collaborating with me.
In my world …
GoogleSheets Airtable
GoogleDocs Craft
GMail AppleMail/Spark mainly running my own domains in some data center
Google Search Perplexity
GDrive iCloud/Dropbox
GooglePhotos et al. Apple
What else do people use Google for - I forget.