{"id":2295,"date":"2013-05-16T07:53:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2013-05-16T07:53:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:53:12","slug":"google-building-great-things-that-already-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/2013\/05\/16\/google-building-great-things-that-already-exist","title":{"rendered":"Google: Building Great Things That Already Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2013\/05\/google_versus\">John Gruber<\/a>, discussing Larry Page&#8217;s inspiring anti-&#8220;us versus some other company&#8221; speech, where he implores people to just focus on &#8220;building great that don&#8217;t exist&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook, and now a subscription music service after Spotify.\u00a0They entered the RSS reader market, wiped it out, and are now just walking away from it. Gmail? Webmail but better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The examples go on and on.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that Google\u00a0<em>tries<\/em> to make great things that don&#8217;t exist, but it just can&#8217;t hack it. Google isn&#8217;t a product company, as much as it wants to be. The only product that Page could be\u00a0referencing\u00a0in this statement is Project Glass, but it&#8217;s still way too early to call that a &#8220;great&#8221; product. Maybe Google puts the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/devices\/details\/Nexus_Q?id=nexus_q&amp;hl=en\">Nexus Q<\/a> into the same category, but I don&#8217;t think there is a single person that would apply the word great to that dead-on-arrival product.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s I\/O event seems like a complete non-event. Imagine the press if Apple did something similar at its developer conference.<\/p>\n[sc:newsletter]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber, discussing Larry Page&#8217;s inspiring anti-&#8220;us versus some other company&#8221; speech, where he implores people to just focus on &#8220;building great that don&#8217;t exist&#8221;: Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook, and now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[75],"tags":[55,634,683],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p123kB-B1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamdann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}