From my point of view, it's more : "Google screwed up their online, instantaneous multi-user tool so bad that Microsoft had the time to pour billions into Office-Online-365-whatever-name and now you have Word & Excel in the browser and Google lost their edge".

Without any knowledge of the matter, just looking from outside, Google had the money and the talent to get there but not the focus and the drive.

Silly example : Coloring a text in "Google Docs": the icon is black and white. You can't make that up. Impossible to find it every time I need it and I am using it for 2 months now. Every little detail is like that, showing lack of care for the users.

Also, at the bottom, the beta is opened but it closes the November 15th, so it's close and open at the same time :) (else it's November 2026?)

- first bullet point is litteraly what made Instagram back in 2010s

- calorie tracking is done by taking a picture

- Lifting coach : I 100% bet most lifting app teams are already on it

- Recommandation engine : there is probably 0 money to make here to link random web pages. Where there is money, it's already done brillantly (for the companies) : Tiktok, Youtube algorithms have made huge progress since I see a lot of comments by people saying "I don't know why YouTube recommanded me that video but I am glad I watched it", GOogle News, and probably many more.

- calorie tracking is done by taking a picture

- everything "minimalist" => any good tool focused on 1 main feature and get success will add more feature to cater to specific needs that current users have or that future users are thought to have.

I stop reading the list at that point :/

I am impressed by the quality of your work on this side project and I love that final attention.

Would be a shame to have energy consumption by datacenters regulated, am I right ?

Steps are not clear enough. It looks to me it's a step by step guide but it missed at least 2 points :

- the search engine must be Google I think ? Mine is duckduckgo and it doesnot work

- I still dont know if my device is supposed to be in airplane mode or no for the test. In airplane mode, even with Google set as the search engine, it does not work. Pixel phone. If I am connected to internet, I do have the single result from the google search.

I guess we are expected to be pleasantly surprised by something, but since I don't know what to look for and it does not work, it's a miss for me.

Personally I prefer to have the explanation alongside the steps that way I know what I am doing and can correctly interpret the instructions. For me, learning the technical trick does not diminish my contentness.

I believe they are only wondering about details now and trying to hear the guys.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...

https://www.intelligenceonline.com/government-intelligence/2...

https://www.france24.com/fr/europe/20240814-sabotage-de-nord...

In other news, I hate that trend of scrolling to animate to get content.

And I have so far always find important emails (notably because important topics are easily found emails chains and far more often than not in the dedicated meeting report).

Structuring data is cultural so you should rather learn to use the system used by your organization. Only super small teams and solo-founders need to think about how to store data. Most workers should follow their community to let other people find the information.

Folders, drawer, cabinet have been around for 3 centuries at least and imho, we are not gonna reinvent the wheel with this or that way to structure information.