Comment by TheNewsIsHere

There’s “move fast and break things” at Facebook.

And then there’s “launch whatever an SVP dreams up” followed by “kill that old SVP’s thing” at Google.

Perhaps slightly exaggerated. Google product reveals and sunsets have frequently followed executive movements in/around/out of the company. Two big examples that had widespread impact are in the later Google Wallet/Pay changes and some of the later insanity around multiple self-canabalizing IM/chat/conferencing services.

There seems to be no long term vision or strategy at Google, and Pichai is notoriously averse to making decisions of consequence. It’s not surprising that Google is rudderless.