Android operating system or browser Chrome has made great progress in recent years, but Google also noted the failure of Google products such as TV or Chromebook.
Not only "withdrawal" in the field of search and e-commerce, Google is reaching the "octopus" of his many new areas. Success but also failures are not simple, with the ups and downs of the giant Google in a year.
Success
Android OS
Android is a product of the success of Google in the past year. From here there is a fledgling operating system (launched 2008), it rose to par with Apple's IOS operating system and is the most popular mobile world. With Android 2.3 Gingerbread for Android smartphone and tablet 3.x operating system promises even more strongly developed in 2012 with Android Ice Cream Sandwich is suitable for both the product line. As of December 11/2011, Android makes up 52% of global smartphone market share.
Chrome Browser
Chrome continues to be a product born late but "adult" with a dizzying speed. Chrome recently surpassed Mozilla Firefox to become the second most popular browser in the world with 25.7% market share, which, in 2011 alone, the growth rate of browsers has grown to four, 66%. Remarkable achievement is that of Chrome has been projected earlier, thanks to the simple, elegant interface and very fast download speed of web browsers.
Google Maps and Google Music
The integration of Google Maps in the operating system Andorid has brought success beyond expectations for the Google map feature. With this application, users can easily observe every detail inside each mall or airport. While Google Music also received great support from Android users. The thing, though not inferior to Apple's iTunes, the popularity of Google Music is not really big.
" The old acquaintance "
Google Search, YouTube or Gmail is the "trump card" for Google to bring success in the past and still is the dominant product on the market that it is involved. Despite showing great effort but the search engines like Yahoo or Bing (of Microsoft) is not a competitor of Google Search. Google's search engine is still accounted for 85% market share. Particularly in the field of mobile search, Google Search was "overwhelmed" with about 95% more market share.
Failure
Chromebook
Advertised as a revolutionary product with Chrome OS operating system built around a browser and the user data stored on the "cloud" but it is extremely Chromebook "unmarketable". As reported byDigiTimes , Google only sold about 30,000 units in the last 6 months Chromebook.
Google Wallet
In fact, Google Wallet is not really a failure of Google products, it is still a relatively large obstacles.Services 'electronic wallet' by Google to help users make online payments using NFC smartphone built without any of the cards. But when I was not really popular, the service faced doubts about security, things have never been strong points of the giant Google.
Google TV
Google TV is the product of collaboration between Google and partner Logitech. This project has spent U.S. $ 100 million with premium features such as Vietnam are combined TV ad with a phone or video service in real time but the success of this product line is not found where.
Google +
The first day of release, Google + has created a real craze in the market with the number of users increases exponentially, but at the present time, it has quickly become the "spray bomb". In general, Google + not create a strong impression to the user.
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