“One of the earmarks of a poorly managed business is the inability to focus on core competencies and improve the product, its delivery, and the efficiency of the business. It’s like a guy who runs a lawn mower-sharpening business who decides to sell junk jewelry on the side or moose heads on eBay because he saw someone else do it and it seemed like a good idea at the time,” John C. Dvorak writes for PC Magazine. “This is Google.”
“It’s just scattershot nonsense that has very little to do with its core money-making businesses: Internet search and online advertising,” Dvorak writes. “The company’s effort to develop a self-driving car are noble, but what does it have to do with anything?”
“Now we have the culmination,” Dvorak writes, “a souvenir shop called the Google Merchandise Store selling every sort of Google-branded nonsense imaginable, including a $50 meat “branding iron” that will imprint the Android robot image on a hamburger or steak.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote back in January:
Our Lady of Perpetual Beta’s pie-in-the-sky products aren’t innovation, they’re just mental-masturbatory marketing ploys.
