Google Passion
I love good products. I love good bands. I love good things. When I find something that I enjoy, I can?t wait to share it with my friends and family. It?s just in the blood I guess.
A Google Talk conversation from the other day:
Me: ?I guess I?m just a Google fan.?
Jeremy: ?Google fanatic maybe.?
Me: ?Fair enough.?
That came after a full 15 minutes of explaining the goodness of Google Talk. Jeremy was unconvinced. And who could blame him? I?ve got 5 seperate IM logins, I run Trillian, I got a whole slew of different ?Buddies? and ?Friends? lists. Or at least, I did run Trillian. I?ve dropped them all for Google Talk (Find me at eerwin@gmail.com). When a company is brave and bold enough to not only conform to a unified standard but to explain in great detail how to get it working with other clients, that is greatness not to be ignored.
The worst, of course, is when the great Goog is attacked for being too good, for being too successful, and for, gasp, actually paying its engineers great salaries!
The only word that comes to mind is envy, and ?Industry Insiders? may as well be traded out for the term ?Jealous Assholes? because that?s just how they come across. Microsoft earned its evil reputation over years of bullying, closed standards, and monopolistic practices. They?re lightening up their evil load quite a bit with blogging, but that stigma will be on them for years.
Google is just the opposite in almost all forms: They create great products but they give them away, they don?t blog because quite simply they don?t need to. And yes, their own little blog is trash, and I certainly don?t bother with it.
The effort to put a human face on Microsoft was made by Scoble and his blogging efforts. He has, in my eyes, revolutionized what Microsoft is. But that doesn?t stop their business ideals or their business plan. Microsoft makes money from selling software. Google makes money by selling advertising in their software.
In a world fueled by the idea of Good vs. Evil and ?There are only two types of people in the world?, the gray area that both Microsoft and Google now inhabit lead some to frustration and others to fanaticism. When you?re creating passionate users, each company does it a different way. For Microsoft it?s Channel 9. For Google, it?s excellent free products. Both have their fans, and there?s nothing inherently wrong with either of them at this point in time.
I just hope they keep the competition going: It?s brought nothing but good things for sys admins and end users alike.
See ya next week.
It?s going to be a glorious day
I feel my luck could change
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