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G+ lost because Google forced G+ to every Google account. Post something to Youtube, you silently created a G+ post. Upload something to Picasa, you silently published the photo to your G+ newsfeed, etc. - quite toxic. And have they learned from their Google Buzz (G+ predecessor)? Nope, same behavior.

I have somewhat similar feeling about the upcoming Win10 launch, and in near future a lot normal user will learn the hard way why they got Win10 in exchange for the current Win7/8 license.

Simply don't outsmart your user base.



G+ wanted to be a rendezvous for all social/sharing activities on Google, and it turned out that many users didn't like it. Would G+ have fared better if it didn't force G+ onto every Google property? Maybe? It's easy to do armchair analysis, but hindsight is 20/20.


There is no 'hindsight is 20/20' here.

Everyone knew what Google was doing was monumentally stupid on so many grounds.

There was widespread criticism over the real names policy and linking across properties.


No, plenty of people said it would be terrible as soon as it was announced.


If nobody had the foresight, they would have all been fine with joining Google and they wouldn't have failed. Google didn't have the foresight.


I don't think Win10 is that bad. In fact I think they fixed the MS account OOBE that was bad in Win8.1, making the option to use a local account much more clear.




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