Wow, they only just figured out that managers don't need to have a greater technical skill than those they are managing? I thought that was management 101?
Managing and engineering are 2 different skills. While managers benefit from technical knowledge it certainly doesn't need to be greater.
And with Marissa Mayers comments on Google wants to connect the real world to the digital world, where have they been. In case they weren't aware, internet connected appliances, location based apps, RFID, QR codes, mobile phones have been around for a little while now.
Google's search engine is great though slowly declining in quality but that is all they have been great at. Android is a decent mobile OS but it only received market pentration due to it's zero cost. Their social attempts have all failed. They only seem to get wide market adoption from free software or services, which I suppose they use to keep their search engine traffic high so they can maintain their advertising revenues.
They seem like a company unable to create another profitable software line.
Managing and engineering are 2 different skills. While managers benefit from technical knowledge it certainly doesn't need to be greater.
And with Marissa Mayers comments on Google wants to connect the real world to the digital world, where have they been. In case they weren't aware, internet connected appliances, location based apps, RFID, QR codes, mobile phones have been around for a little while now.
Google's search engine is great though slowly declining in quality but that is all they have been great at. Android is a decent mobile OS but it only received market pentration due to it's zero cost. Their social attempts have all failed. They only seem to get wide market adoption from free software or services, which I suppose they use to keep their search engine traffic high so they can maintain their advertising revenues.
They seem like a company unable to create another profitable software line.