I believe they are being editorial with games already, via the Staff Picks on the Android Market. They certainly are openly editorial with Google Music. So now that they're unifying all that, I guess we can only expect more of it.
Even if Google becomes "editorial" with games, there's no reason to believe that the people in editorial roles will be at all competent. I would bet against it. Google, without a doubt, has hundreds of people inside the company who would be awesome in such a role... but they'll never be picked.
Google's founders are brilliant, and the line engineers are great, but between those two sets there are layers upon layers of stewing, necrotic incompetence, a result of this being that some really horrible ideas (such as a performance review system that has everyone-- not just managers-- dropping everything for 2 weeks every fall to write reviews) see implementation while good ones die in obscurity.
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I believe they are being editorial with games already, via the Staff Picks on the Android Market. They certainly are openly editorial with Google Music. So now that they're unifying all that, I guess we can only expect more of it.
Even if Google becomes "editorial" with games, there's no reason to believe that the people in editorial roles will be at all competent. I would bet against it. Google, without a doubt, has hundreds of people inside the company who would be awesome in such a role... but they'll never be picked.
Google's founders are brilliant, and the line engineers are great, but between those two sets there are layers upon layers of stewing, necrotic incompetence, a result of this being that some really horrible ideas (such as a performance review system that has everyone-- not just managers-- dropping everything for 2 weeks every fall to write reviews) see implementation while good ones die in obscurity.