I was on a call with their sales rep and he was awful. Even if I told him what kind of volume we're looking at, the guy didn't want to talk costs, over two meetings. Very poor experience. Seems like they're designing pricing around how much money you have.
A guy from a company with probably the worst history of unethical or even illegal behavior in the industry, got all worked up about guys doing link building outreach.
I would love to use iOS devices but somehow I just can't accept I can't run Linux on them. I understand, it's all great and neat and etc. but I also believe IT professionals should use open source OS if possible at all. I don't have strong arguments for this so I understand people have different expectations and understanding.
Problem with google is that they are losing data game.
They own the web but meanwhile web became only one medium among many and a lot of companies build their own "web"
Instagram app is essentially a browser to use IG's private "web" of content google has no access to.
Same goes for twitter, even Snapchat.
So attention wise, google is loosing dominance as other companies are building their own protocols on top of web.
Speaking of data,they own search intent (via Google) and web content (via Google analytics).
However I'd say Facebook is ingesting way more data on non-content usage. They made much easier for advertisers to connect into FBs audience graphs and cross reference and retarget based on first-party visitor profiles.
All tools suck in a way that actual reality of doing work is complicated and tools are obviously way simpler so you end up trying to reduce the reality to fit the model of a particular tool.
That explains why email is still the most used tool. It also sucks but you can do any type of project with email and everyone knows how to use it.
People unfortunately don't get that and are being slow cooked into accepting being spied on.
I paid for device and then you prevent me from doing perfectly legal action and then notify authorities about it. That's what it is, and coming from privacy hero, Apple.
Google bought them and shut them down.