[Wookie42]

(Original post by Fallen)
Google has many more flops than successes (and things like YouTube were bought by them because their own Google Videos failed).

Not that this reflects badly on them at all, it would be impossible to succeed every time, but that's the truth.

I never said that Google were the best thing ever and never failed, but I don't think I'm wrong - a lot of people expected Google+ to be the next big thing and potentially take a lot of Facebook's market away from them.

[Fallen]

(Original post by Wookie42)
I never said that Google were the best thing ever and never failed, but I don't think I'm wrong - a lot of people expected Google+ to be the next big thing and potentially take a lot of Facebook's market away from them.

Well if you read the post I quoted you in, isn't that almost exactly what you said? I wouldn't even necessarily disagree if you said they were the best thing ever, I very much hope to work there in the near future, but that does not require or imply that most of their ventures succeed.

[Wookie42]

(Original post by Fallen)
Well if you read the post I quoted you in, isn't that almost exactly what you said? I wouldn't even necessarily disagree if you said they were the best thing ever, I very much hope to work there in the near future, but that does not require or imply that most of their ventures succeed.

OK... well originally all I meant was that at the time, all the media surrounding it wouldn't shut up about how Google+ would be the next in line to tower over Facebook. Anyway, ya got me

[A.J10]

It's like all the people who say the next big MMO will kill WoW. It never does, it's too large to kill with one blow. You have to treat it like an JRPG boss and whittle down its health slowly over time.

[smalltalk]

One the problems is that you need a Gmail account to use Google+.
I don't think that the people that use Hotmail or Yahoo! are going to switch to Gmail to be able to use Google+, even if they wanted to (which they don't)

[A.J10]

(Original post by smalltalk)
One the problems is that you need a Gmail account to use Google+.
I don't think that the people that use Hotmail or Yahoo! are going to switch to Gmail to be able to use Google+, even if they wanted to (which they don't)

You don't need a gmail account, you need a google account which gives you a gmail address. It's not like you have to use gmail to use g+, as far as I know it's perfectly possible to sign up for g+ without touching gmail.

Kinda how like facebook now distributes email addresses and how precisely noone uses them, but backwards.