AlyssaS - 1:25 pm on Oct 12, 2011 (gmt 0)

Here's another post (from a googler) that people might find interesting. The first part is an entertaining rant about amazon, but the bit that concerns Google's difficulty in making platforms is in the second half of the post. IMO the whole thing is a little gem that gives an insight into these companies that we don't get from official books. (You will need to paste the link below into your browser):

https://raw.github.com/gist/933cc4f7df97d553ed89/24386c6a79bb4b31fb818b70b34c5eab7f12e1ff/gistfile1.txt

P.S. They are discussing it on hacker news, but the discussion there is focused on amazon:

[news.ycombinator.com...]