Okay, for those of us who already liked
#GooglePlus , HOW does splitting it into
#GooglePhotos and
#GoogleStreams improve the products and benefit the user?
Sure the
Google Plus brand name has been treated as a punchline in the media much like
Aquaman when it comes to superheroes (and like him, vastly misunderstood and underrated), how does this splitting it up improve the product itself and how do we as users of the product(s) come out ahead from the previous status quo?
Lastly, will you be responsible for MARKETING
Google Photos and
Google Streams? If the reason for the split is due to a lack of popularity, then the blame for that can also be laid at the DEARTH of marketing of the service. The same thing happened to the
#Amiga computer--and, frankly, a lot of other canceled Google services. Burying a 10-second mention during a 1-minute ad of
#Google services in general is burying the lede. The people who hadn't heard of the service or known what it was wouldn't figure out the benefits from those ads.
And if you don't have a budget to market the service then focus on developing new and improving old features. That at least gives tech news services something to report on. The long period of time between new features being added to
Google Plus did it no favors--much like
#GoogleGlass has gone a year with the only new feature being new fashion frames and no word on longer battery life or even something as simple as an LED light to indicate when its camera was on (odd how much grief it got for a camera that sometimes might be on versus
HoloLens augmented reality glasses which require the camera to ALWAYS be on to sync the virtual overlay onto the real background).
Plus the decision to rescind the horrible restriction of real names only happened long after the first 6-12 months when the service was still the buzz of the tech media.
Yeah, I know, fans can sometimes be the harshest critics of something, only because we care that it does well. We're already fans of
Google Plus. We know the greater control, privacy, flexibility and power it has over
Twitter,
Facebook,
Instagram,
Pinterest, etc. We're already here because we want that to continue. We just hope you and
Google overall feel the same way--and ACT in ways to support it.
-- Ken from Chicago
P.S. Now I have to go post to
DC Comics how not mess up
Aquaman movie (its most underrated superhero) and to
Marvel Comics why it should have a
Netflix series about its most underrated superhero, Doug Ramsey, aka
#Cypher (his ability to almost instantly translate languages was only used for hacking computer languages and it took TPTB forever to realize he'd also be able to read BODY LANGUAGE to tell if someone is lying, how they feel and even tell want kind of move someone would use in martial arts, not to mention be able to understand any doctorate subject by being able to break down the high-level language to effectively make him supersmart, altho TPTB deliberately nerfed that ability).
P.P.S. Okay, okay, the above sounds a bit arrogant (Hubris much?), especially if you don't know me or read my previous (sometimes a ... wee ... bit long-winded) posts. I'm not trying to attack the decision made, just ask for a straight out statement of the benefits. And if those benefits have been already announced in the past week, then the lack of a link to them in the original post seems to be symptom of the kind of problem of lack of marketing--and basically, of communication--I have been concerned about.