The worst thing in promoting their app is that I would gladly use it if it was faster than a web site, but it loads so much slower that it's just a much worse experience.
Google realized that load times are critical 20 years ago. Facebook realized it when Google was launching G+.
Yes, Google transformed from an engineering driven organization to a tech driven one. Still, they want to make moneycin developing countries with crappy internet connections as well, so Google doesn't have any choice, it still has to look at latencies.
Google realized that load times are critical 20 years ago. Facebook realized it when Google was launching G+.