On: Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off

[invalidname]

They didn't build a significantly commercially successful product since gmail. Android was an acquisition.

They are in panic mode since they realize growth will be over. Search has stagnated, they missed on social (repeatedly) and they have nowhere to improve. Ventures like the self driving car etc. were all an expensive detour.

Google is the new Microsoft (or worse, Oracle). It's just a matter of time until the rest of the world figures this out.

[asdff → invalidname]

Every single enterprise company I know of pays for gsuite. Every university too. They could just lean into that.

[jiggawatts → asdff]

Every single enterprise company I know pays for Office 365.

The only two that pay for G Suite migrated it to Office 365, turned it off, and never looked back.

[quartesixte → asdff]

? As far as I am aware, Microsoft Office is still the dominant, de facto platform of the corporate world.

Gsuite is the underdog here and I wonder if they’re having trouble with retention and new customer acquisition.

[asdff → quartesixte]

They pay for both usually. You get one person who wants g suite in a department and IT buys an institutional license.

[Seb-C → asdff]

At least until some manager decides to revamp the UX to get a promotion, thus killing it.

I wonder how long it will take to happen.

[asdff → Seb-C]

Not going to happen. The software is entrenched like microsoft office at this point. These organizations buy both and they do the same things, just because its entrenched and expected among students and workers to have both at this point. What a position to be in.