Some of these Google/Amazon/Apple "Introducing Product X..." stories are starting to strike me as intellectually devoid, creeping into "free advertising" territory.
This particular story is about a Google service that is an extremely late entrant into the market (Amazon Glacier, etc) and offers almost nothing new. I'm not saying it's a bad product or not useful to folks, but it's not, by any means, groundbreaking. I'd much rather see the top spot of HN occupied by some startup's new idea or a researcher's new findings.
I also don't mean to imply that "big corporate" == bad. Certain products -- self driving cars, Space X automated landings, etc -- are absolutely worthy of our attention and discussion. I just hope that people would think twice before upvoting a story merely because it's from Google.
This particular story is about a Google service that is an extremely late entrant into the market (Amazon Glacier, etc) and offers almost nothing new. I'm not saying it's a bad product or not useful to folks, but it's not, by any means, groundbreaking. I'd much rather see the top spot of HN occupied by some startup's new idea or a researcher's new findings.
I also don't mean to imply that "big corporate" == bad. Certain products -- self driving cars, Space X automated landings, etc -- are absolutely worthy of our attention and discussion. I just hope that people would think twice before upvoting a story merely because it's from Google.