Remember Google Sheets (already the Tonka Toys of spreadsheets) adding named tables to Sheets?
You can't use them in any of the AppsScript APIs. You have to fall back to manual searching for strings and index arithmetic.
Google Drive still barely supports anything like moving an entire folder to another folder.
They have failed at least a half dozen times now to deliver a functional chat/VOIP app after they already had one in Google Talk.
They regularly sunset products that actually have devoted and zealous user bases for indiscernible reasons.
Android is just chugging along doing nothing interesting and still carrying the same baggage it did before. It's a painful platform to develop for and the Jetpack Compose/Kotlin shift hasn't ameliorated much of that at all.
Their search offering is now worse than Bing, worse than Kagi, and worse than some of the LLM based tools that use their index. It's increasingly common that you can't even find a single link that you know an entire verbatim sentence from via Google search for inexplicable reasons. Exact keyword or phrase searches no longer work. You can't require a keyword in results.
I don't trust Google to deliver a single functional software product at this point, let alone a compelling integration of many different ones developed in different siloes.
About the only thing going for them is how many people still have Gmail accounts from that initial invite only and generous limits campaign... 20 years ago?
Google is not a healthy company. I don't invest in them anymore, and barring some major change I probably won't again. It's a dying blue chip which is a terrible position to have your money in.
P.S. oh, and Gemini is awful by comparison in both price and quality to competitors. It isn't saving them. It's just a "me too".
P.P.S. I'm personally just waiting for their next "game changing" announcement bound to fail to get in at the top floor on shorting what stock I have. It's one of those cases where finance has rose coloured glasses based on brand name that anyone who's used Google products for years would be thoroughly disabused of.
