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0 pointsredthrowaway14y ago0 comments

I'd give my left nut to fail as hard as G+ has. 70M users in a couple months is the kind of failure I can get behind.

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They aren't new users though. None of them are new to google.com, and most already have Google accounts. They are simply activating another Google service.

It's a whole different thing if you launch a startup like Dropbox and get people to use it.

redthrowawayOP14y ago

So by that metric, if every gmail user used G+ it would still be a failure? If it captured 70% of the online population, it wouldn't be that impressive because those people originally used search?

Wave was a failure, and it had plenty of Docs and Gmail users to draw from. G+ strikes me as a very different beast, and one that has already found its niche. It may not displace facebook, but it certainly seems to have eaten into Twitter's niche.

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suivix14y ago

They aren't new users though. None of them are new to google.com, and most already have Google accounts. They are simply activating another Google service.

It's a whole different thing if you launch a startup like Dropbox and get people to use it.

redthrowawayOP14y ago

So by that metric, if every gmail user used G+ it would still be a failure? If it captured 70% of the online population, it wouldn't be that impressive because those people originally used search?

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