This video is hilarious. Applause for a slight cosmetic change to a URL that basically amounts to a subdomain?
How do people at Google find such work fulfilling? If I was given such a meaningless project I'd be depressed. It seems that at a certain point such large companies run out of real work to do, and insist on making such changes that don't really matter anymore just to create work for people to do and present on stage.
This is going against everything that the web stands for. I assume the next logical step in this line of thinking is for Google to require developers to start making pull requests to Chrome when we want to change the style of the text on one of our pages?
It seems like what could have happened at Google is they are fed up with web sites draining the battery on their precious Android devices and want so desperately to beat Apple in the battery life game they are willing to neuter the web in order to do it.
This is exactly what happens when you hire an aggressive queen and don't have any checks and balances in your behemoth tech company that is becoming more and more accustomed to her dark soul.
> they are fed up with web sites draining the battery on their precious Android devices and want so desperately to beat Apple in the battery life game
That... does not make any sense. If anything, it will increase the relative lead of Apple in the battery life game.
It's about not having information being more and more stuck in Apple News / FB because those silos are more efficient than the web.
If people use apps instead of the web, Google will earn less money.
This video is hilarious. Applause for a slight cosmetic change to a URL that basically amounts to a subdomain?
How do people at Google find such work fulfilling? If I was given such a meaningless project I'd be depressed. It seems that at a certain point such large companies run out of real work to do, and insist on making such changes that don't really matter anymore just to create work for people to do and present on stage.
This is going against everything that the web stands for. I assume the next logical step in this line of thinking is for Google to require developers to start making pull requests to Chrome when we want to change the style of the text on one of our pages?
It seems like what could have happened at Google is they are fed up with web sites draining the battery on their precious Android devices and want so desperately to beat Apple in the battery life game they are willing to neuter the web in order to do it.
This is exactly what happens when you hire an aggressive queen and don't have any checks and balances in your behemoth tech company that is becoming more and more accustomed to her dark soul.