AFAIK Google is much better at not tearing well-working teams apart in reorgs, and letting people go they have acquihired a few quarters earlier.

Of the few examples I have I my head, I'd even say that the fate of a product that has been acquired by Google is probably even better than those of Google's internally developed products. e.g. Waze is still alive and kicking 13 years after acquisition under its own brand and hasn't been completely swallowed by Google Maps. The Nest brand also stuck around for quite some time.

Google has such a much better reputation when it comes to contributing to and understanding open source. It’s unfair to Google to put Amazon above them.

Heck AWS is the sole reason all these projects needed to go through these license changes to prevent AWS from completely destroying their business models.

One of the things that has hampered the adoption of Dart/Flutter has been the fear Google would abandon it. I always presumed them to be in the lead regarding this kind of shittiness, but this is based on gut feel rather than analysis.

I feel like google do the most innovative projects of all the big companies.

Golang is alive and kicking still :shrug:

golang is great?