Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart Google has invested in Walmart's Indian e-commerce operation Flipkart, which holds almost half of the market for e-commerce on the subcontinent. The Chocolate Factory's planned role as a "minority investor" is subject to regulatory approvals, according to a Friday announcement [PDF] by the e-commerce concern. "Google's …
Bad UI changes are happening in its main products.
Chrome Refresh 2023 made bookmark menus sluggish and nearly unreadable by making text shorter instead of making it longer. Meanwhile YouTube is experimenting with annoying layout changes.
Why or why introducing changes nobody asked for? At least, since AI is here, why not offering a choice for a good old near-perfect UI?
I too, like to blame to blame designers, but it's almost always marketing and the shit just rolls downhill to the designers.
Same with the devs.
Website design seems to be made with crayons and paint huffing these days. Marketing needs their ares kicked back downstairs.
Not really sure why a 17 year old business worth (at 2018 Walmart prices) over USD$20bn needs a ‘funding round’. It’s hardly a start-up…. Oh yea … profit.
Can you not just say the hapless Walmart is still playing sunk cause fallacy losing money on this never made a profit business whilst flogging health profitable businesses like the UK’s Asda.
You seem to have neglected this fact from the story. Amazon India have never turned a profit either … so it’s a hard market.
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