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Google Wave Creator Quits, Joins Facebook
srimadman found an interview with Wave creator Lars Rasmussen where he talks about his recent decision to join Facebook, leaving Google behind. Apparently getting personally pitched by Zuckerberg helped. He says, "I've got a job description of 'come hang out with us for a while and we'll see what happens,' which is a pretty exciting thing." The article talks about Big vs Small companies, and notes that about 20% of Facebook's staff are former Googlers.
Just look at the dominant languages in Google: not C++ or C. Not serious languages.
Facebook is an extremely poorly written web application - extremely poorly written. From a chat client that has barely worked to privacy settings that don't work; where different views reveal information that has been explicitly marked as "private".
If you've ever tried to configure a "Google Web Appliance" targeted for the enterprise you'll appreciate just what a dodgy crowd Google are, too.
All in all, Google and Facebook are great bedfellows.
"And Android as a smartphone OS blows the competition out of the water."
I develop on both Android and iOS and I can tell you with 100% certainty that this is not true at all.
Google stock has gone up 450% sing IPO. Apple's has gone up 1500% in the same amount of time. True innovation drives the market and Google is failing to bring anything compelling to the table. Your description of "business" innovation is spin bullshit. True innovation changes the way people work, play and live. Google has helped people slack at work and school by providing an extremely rich web search engine, but beyond that, their products haven't been the impetus for any paradigm shift. Apple, on the other hand, revolutionized computing decades ago and they are doing it again now with their devices and software. True innovation trumps "business" innovation.