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0 pointsEnsorceled11y ago0 comments

That's a silly argument and shows a complete misunderstanding, or at least naive view, of product development.

Security, uptime and profitability are all table stakes. Not priorities.

Google+ just went from table stakes to priority #2.

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Knowing who you are, knowing you you like to Follow, knowing who you like to share with, those are "table stakes," to use your term.

Google didn't know who you were, who you followed, who you shared with, and so Google+ looked a lot like a product to you.

EnsorceledOP11y ago

I think you are too emotionally involved or don't play poker and missed the reference. If Google+ is now a feature that divisions can choose to integrate or not, it's not table stakes.

No silo of Google gets to choose whether to be secure or not or what level of scalability or whether they'll decide to be profitable or not.

MattCruikshank11y ago

It's table stakes for a company to know how to do social integration.

Not all products that a company offers need social integration.

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0 pointsEnsorceled11y ago0 comments

That's a silly argument and shows a complete misunderstanding, or at least naive view, of product development.

Security, uptime and profitability are all table stakes. Not priorities.

Google+ just went from table stakes to priority #2.

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MattCruikshank11y ago

Knowing who you are, knowing you you like to Follow, knowing who you like to share with, those are "table stakes," to use your term.

Google didn't know who you were, who you followed, who you shared with, and so Google+ looked a lot like a product to you.

EnsorceledOP11y ago

I think you are too emotionally involved or don't play poker and missed the reference. If Google+ is now a feature that divisions can choose to integrate or not, it's not table stakes.

No silo of Google gets to choose whether to be secure or not or what level of scalability or whether they'll decide to be profitable or not.

MattCruikshank11y ago

It's table stakes for a company to know how to do social integration.

Not all products that a company offers need social integration.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse