1. Google's only consumer OS is Android. Even after literally years of development it's still riddled with inconsistencies (visual and behaviour), performance issues, security issues etc.
2. It took them literally years to arrive at Material UI design, which is a vast sprawling document which is often internally inconsistent, and even Google can't adhere to it a lot of the time.
3. Their best customer-facing products have traditionally been third-party acquisitions (such as Docs). They have a very inconsistent approach to UI/UX across all of their products.
(I had more, but it's hard to concentrate on the first of January :) )
They can still pull it off, but it's definitely not a given.
>Even after literally years of development it's still riddled with inconsistencies (visual and behaviour), performance issues, security issues etc.
You make it sound as if inconsistencies, performance and security issues are isolated to Android. Which is ridiculous considering the plethora of inconsistencies, performance issues and security exploits on other platforms. As for security issues, no Pixel has ever been hacked at a PwnToOwn event while iOS devices consistently are.
>It took them literally years to arrive at Material UI design, which is a vast sprawling document which is often internally inconsistent, and even Google can't adhere to it a lot of the time.
Have you looked at iOS recently? Apple doesn't even follow their own guidelines nor do the vast majority of the special snowflakes on the App store. And I won't even go into the disaster that is Metro/Modern or whatever they're calling it now on the Windows platform.
>Their best customer-facing products have traditionally been third-party acquisitions (such as Docs). They have a very inconsistent approach to UI/UX across all of their products.
Mac OS was a third party acquisition and iOS was created from that so you could make the argument that even iOS is the result of a third party acquisition. The fact is these products would never be as successful as they are today without the resources and money its taken to get them to this point.
>They can still pull it off, but it's definitely not a given.
It's not really a question of if they can pull it off, but rather when they'll pull it off. If nothing else Fuchsia will be the new OS used by Google internally replacing their current customized Linux distribution. And if that's the extent of Fuchsia's use then it'll still be considered a win, but that's not where it's going to end in my opinion. I see Fuchsia surpassing Linux in desktop OS market share rather quickly and eventually challenging Mac OS in the long term.
2. It took them literally years to arrive at Material UI design, which is a vast sprawling document which is often internally inconsistent, and even Google can't adhere to it a lot of the time.
3. Their best customer-facing products have traditionally been third-party acquisitions (such as Docs). They have a very inconsistent approach to UI/UX across all of their products.
(I had more, but it's hard to concentrate on the first of January :) )
They can still pull it off, but it's definitely not a given.