MG Siegler via parislemon

When you release sub-par products, you look sub-par yourself. Customers don’t care what platform it’s on, and don’t care what politics are going on behind the scenes at the company. If you release shit, you look like shit. It’s much better to release nothing at all.

That’s maybe my biggest problem with Google. They release something, and I no longer have any faith that it’s going to be any good. It’s hard to get excited about a company like that. It’s the same reason why it’s hard to get excited when Microsoft and Yahoo release new things. The track record just isn’t there any more. The faith is gone.

The reaction or anticipation preceding an announcement or update to a product is so different between Google and other companies. When Apple releases something almost everyone is excited and expects them to make positive changes that most users are actually excited to use. The same goes with Microsoft. Every year when they get on stage at E3 and talk about the updates to the Xbox, people are happy about most of the changes and they really look forward to using them.

Google is now more in the same league as RIM or HP. If feels most users would prefer them to make no changes and just not talk about any updates because every time they change something they mess it up. The comforting difference between HP and RIMs complete failures and Google is that they don’t didn’t screw with the cash cow, Google search.

Update: Mike Florio mentioned MobileMe. I agree no one has faith that Apple can deliver web services with the same quality and reliability that they show on other products. The fear for me is that Google is now messing with search. I can overlook Google's inability to code passable iOS apps or Apple's consistant stumbles with web services. I would start to lose faith in Apple if they started making mistakes with iOS, but they are not.