Do you think Google will start to evolve G+ to meet more business needssince they kept it for GSuite, or do you...
Do you think Google will start to evolve G+ to meet more business needs since they kept it for GSuite, or do you think they are just going to EOL it later when they can justify dropping the service from their contracts with GSuite customers?
Their blog post said they were going to improve G+ for businesses and redesign it to better fit business use. Whether or not that will actually happen remains to be seen.
ReplyDeleteI think Google+ will become, for businesses, Google's slack alternative since Spaces didn't work out for them.
ReplyDeleteA month ago, I would have voted "evolve" but now I have trust issues.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty firmly on the side that it will be killed off. I've seen this pattern before, most notably with Wave, which first was killed off for consumers and was supposedly going to be reworked for business, and was then simply killed completely.
ReplyDeleteAs for something like Slack, I see them continuing to retool Hangouts Chat (with Hangouts Meet as their video conferencing solution already established).
Google not killing off something? Ha! You must be joking.
ReplyDelete(Yes, I have trust issues forwards Google.)
I agree with Jason, it would make a good Slack alternative to be used solely with in a GSuite organization or group. Sadly, it will become just another service in GSuite like their classroom service.
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ReplyDeleteI can't see any alternative to it evolving. For one, they have one guaranteed customer that matters more than any other: themselves. Google uses Google+ internally, in fact that is partly where it came from, an evolution and consumerization of some of their own internal social tools.
ReplyDeleteTurns out, businesses can benefit by having internal social networks, in a variety of ways. It's a nascent market that no one owns, and ironically Facebook has a weak hand here due to their lack of an Enterprise Suite and the very understandable fear of many organizations of embracing a corporatized version of a service they think of as a Productivity Suck.
So, I would say that, Organizational Social Media becoming a standard part of the toolkit of an Enterprise Application Suite, and not needing to have or even necessarily benefiting from Consumer Mass Adoption, it's doubtless that Google will offer a social platform, and that while it may not always continue to look like it does now or be called Google+, it's doubtful they'd wipe the slate clean and start completely fresh.
Incidentally, there are clear signs of new Enterprise Only Features in teardowns of the Google+ APK, which appeared back when Consumer Google+ wasn't yet officially being shut down and got me sadly excited for them to reach consumer users, which they never will: androidpolice.com - Google+ v10.7 prepares to add dedicated post titles and Drive attachments with automatic previews [APK Teardown]
pretty obvious to me: Evolve and then killed off. They'll invest in it, get people to like it, not invest enough or recognize potential and then kill off in a few years.
ReplyDeleteThey'll improve it, increase loyalty, then kill it off. It wouldn't piss off enough people yet. They gotta pump those numbers up before they kill it. And yeah, I have zero trust in any google product outside of Android and the search engine itself.
ReplyDeleteThey have announced that it will be changing. There are already some changes in the works that have leaked out (text hyperlinks, for instance) in posts by Googlers, and once the dust has settled from the closedown, I'll expect to see a backlog of updates hitting those of us who are still here.
ReplyDeleteEli Fennell well put, thank you. 400 million schools and business using it internally, I read somewhere
ReplyDeleteNo trust for any services from google anymore.
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