Google aren't pushing WebP. Google Docs / Slides still don't support it.

I appreciate Google isn't a monolith, but that lack of consistency makes it really hard to shake the impression certain tribes within it are at war with each other.

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hn_go_brrrrr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not war, it's indifference. Why should Docs give a damn what Chrome's priorities are? The only reason they would is if there were effective leadership ensuring company-wide alignment, but there is no one filling that function.

	▲	actionfromafar an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, the classic image still holds true. https://www.globalnerdy.com/2011/07/03/org-charts-of-the-big...
	▲	righthand 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Because if they did company wide alignment, you would kill their promotion pipeline. Want harmony? Then in Google you build your own app (see N+1 chat apps) to get that feature, get promoted and dump the project on someone else.

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bitpush an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This is actually a good counter argument for 'Google is pushing X'. If they were pushing X, they'd make all their apps fall in line.

Contrast this to, say, Apple - which when decides to push something, they go all in. And that's an example of top-down decision making.