<story><title>Google Workspace for everyone</title><url>https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-workspace-everyone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Never underestimate the power of an incumbent.&lt;p&gt;Teams is not the best messaging&amp;#x2F;videoconferencing program by a country mile, yet it shows the most growth YoY [citation needed].&lt;p&gt;I worked for a few companies who dipped a toe into the Microsoft waters and their products drowned everything else out; this was not because the offering was technically superior or cheaper.</text></item><item><author>vtail</author><text>For as long a I am a “wanna-be founder”, I used to be afraid of working on ideas that compete with (parts of) Google business. That feeling is no more.&lt;p&gt;I use GSuite at work at a FAANG company, and Google slides with 50+ pages is so slow (multi-second pauses when changing slides) to be practically unusable. Finding documents in Google drive is hard to impossible, and good luck keeping track of comments or tasks assigned to you in multiple unrelated documents.&lt;p&gt;I’m sure at some level consolidating their offerings is a right product move, but I don’t think Basecamp or Calendly should be particularly concerned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>screye</author><text>&amp;gt; Microsoft waters&lt;p&gt;Microsoft and Google have a fundamentally different approach to enterprise software than Google.
Microsoft is the mediocre Apple of enterprise tech, before Apple even got that reputation.&lt;p&gt;EVERYTHING IS INTEGRATED. Microsoft makes it so insanely easy to stay within the microsoft ecosystem, that using a mediocre software created by Microsoft is always a better option than a 3rd party tool. (See slacks getting clobbered by teams, despite slacks being significantly faster)&lt;p&gt;Part of what makes MSFT click is that they they go above and beyond to create a tool everyone can use. Additionally, they are obsessed with customers to a point that their tools lose all personality. This is bad if you want something that is opinionated in exactly the way you want (see Obsidian vs OneNote), but great for companies that want to offer an inoffensive tool that is serviceable for all its employees.&lt;p&gt;An incumbent is fearsome when it uses every little advantage in its greater product offering to embed itself as the obvious option. (Apple for consumer tech, MSFT for enterprise tech). Google has refused to implement the kind of top down organizational structure needed to enforce such integration in its product lineup. This is the company that couldn&amp;#x27;t sync its grocery lists with google keep. As long as it stays true, Google will never be able to leverage the advantage of an incumbent. It&amp;#x27;s a shame too, their products are honestly quite good.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Workspace for everyone</title><url>https://blog.google/products/workspace/google-workspace-everyone/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Never underestimate the power of an incumbent.&lt;p&gt;Teams is not the best messaging&amp;#x2F;videoconferencing program by a country mile, yet it shows the most growth YoY [citation needed].&lt;p&gt;I worked for a few companies who dipped a toe into the Microsoft waters and their products drowned everything else out; this was not because the offering was technically superior or cheaper.</text></item><item><author>vtail</author><text>For as long a I am a “wanna-be founder”, I used to be afraid of working on ideas that compete with (parts of) Google business. That feeling is no more.&lt;p&gt;I use GSuite at work at a FAANG company, and Google slides with 50+ pages is so slow (multi-second pauses when changing slides) to be practically unusable. Finding documents in Google drive is hard to impossible, and good luck keeping track of comments or tasks assigned to you in multiple unrelated documents.&lt;p&gt;I’m sure at some level consolidating their offerings is a right product move, but I don’t think Basecamp or Calendly should be particularly concerned.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>judge2020</author><text>&amp;gt;  the most growth YoY [citation needed]&lt;p&gt;March 31, 2020: 75 million DAU [0]&lt;p&gt;March 31, 2021: 145 million DAU [1]&lt;p&gt;0: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fool.com&amp;#x2F;earnings&amp;#x2F;call-transcripts&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;microsoft-corp-msft-q3-2020-earnings-call-transcri.aspx#:~:text=Teams%20now%20has%20more%20than%2075%20million%20daily%20active%20users&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.fool.com&amp;#x2F;earnings&amp;#x2F;call-transcripts&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;30&amp;#x2F;mi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jeffteper&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1387141320519557120?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;jeffteper&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1387141320519557120?s=2...&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;bdsams&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1387146648678244356?s=20&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;bdsams&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1387146648678244356?s=20&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>