The vice president and the marketing executive would most likely disag

QUESTION

The vice president and the marketing executive would most likely disagree about the answer to which of the following questions?

A) Does Google face a serious competitive challenge from Twitter and Facebook?
B) Are social networking and online messaging potentially important new services worth pursuing for Google?
C) Should Google stop all development on Buzz and let it die?
D) Did Google spend too much development money on issues relating to privacy?
E) Did Buzz fail to catch on because Google’s Nexus One phone was too expensive?

ANSWER

Answer: C
Explanation: C) The vice president says that if Google changed its strategy, Buzz could be successful and even make back the money Google has already invested. Clearly, she thinks Google should keep Buzz alive. The marketing executive, however, says that Google has already spent enough to determine that its users will never embrace a social networking tool like Buzz. So the vice president would disagree that Google should discontinue Buzz, whereas the marketing executive would agree. Choices A and B: It’s reasonable to assume that the vice president and the marketing executive would agree that Google faces a competitive challenge from Twitter and Facebook and in the field of social networking—presumably they both agreed to go ahead with development of Buzz. Choice D: The vice president would presumably disagree with the statement that Google spent too much development money on privacy-related issues, but we don’t know what the marketing executive would say on the issue. Choice E introduces an issue that neither the vice president nor the marketing executive address, so we can’t know their opinions on the matter.