Tell me a single good social app from Google. I'll wait. It's not like they didn't try, but all of them seem to suffer from the design by committee syndrome.
Every content creator who gets a major voice on the platform laments the absence of a competing platform to move to.
Youtube is successful coz of google infrastructure not google decisions/methodology.
Now Google is trying to move Youtube into becoming a hollywood-lite experience and providing major support to entrenched hollywood celebs like will smith/brie larson(they even bypassed monetization policies for larson - her first video launched with full monetisation in play)
I'm still convinced that what was the true killer of G+ was the slow rollout.
It's like Google forgot that a social network needs to be social. Limiting how many people could get on G+ created hype for sure, but whenever someone got a invite, they realized none (or very few) of their friends were on it, and quickly forgot about it.
The slow rollout approach worked for GMail because your friends didn't need GMail for it to work for you.
google settled a lawsuit with affinity engines after the engineer came over to google and misappropriated trade secrets. lol the irony.. Google bought youtube..
Google is completely incapable of coming up with their own successful social network.
