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Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by wouldbecouldbe »

tbyehl wrote: post #127
wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are we being too hard on Google, or did the company change? When it comes to launching new products, whether innovative or not, they seem to have launched some of the most used products out there: Gmail, Google Calender, Analytics Google Play, Chrome etc. They also did their fair share of copying: Galaxy, Cloud etc. Software wise they've launched Go, Angular, Kubernetes, probably some more. They've succesfully launch…

Google Analytics was an acquisition (Urchin)

I mean with Nest you might argue the success was already there but with tools as anlytics, maps etc. it was really Google's quality and push that made it.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by 908B64B197 »

rvz wrote: post #86

Not even a SINGLE mention of North glasses in this thread. [0] Highly likely the reason for closing this down since they already have the IP and technology. So why would Google want to run two teams (Glass and North) in parallel when they can discontinue Glass and merge both teams into one? It would be news if they closed down their newly acquired AR glasses by North [1], but they are still in the AR glasses race. [0…

North is really a footnote. It acquired the Intel Vaunt [0] tech and patents and tried to bring it to market[1]. It failed to do so and was acquired for a little bit less than it raised [2], suggesting Google only valued the patents. The company failed to retain talent and trimmed it's workforce aggressively before the acquisition.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16966530/intel-vaunt-smart...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/17/18144221/north-focals-in...

[2] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-a-vision-fa...

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by jayd16 »

Gareth321 wrote: post #108
jpm_sd wrote: post #93

Glass just wasn't very good. Tiny low resolution display, poor quality camera, uncomfortable to wear, terrible battery life. Pivoting to "for Enterprise" was just a half-assed attempt to make back some of the $$$ wasted on development without putting much more effort into R&D. Not a surprise that adoption was limited. (I worked at X 2013-2015.)

It was a first gen AR product released almost 10 years ago. They needed to keep working on it, but like all Google products, they stopped very soon after launch.

It wasn't even AR. It was just a hud.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by mustacheemperor »

phpisthebest wrote: post #152
bla3 wrote: post #79

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I think this is both obsolete and subtly wrong. Big corps want products with global impact. When a product is new, it's evaluated for its potential. When it's been around for a while, it's evaluated on how well its growth is matching the estimated impact. Eventually, growth has stopped. If the product lands at an active base of a billion users or so, it's a success and people definitely can make a career out of maint…

google will never get a new service to a billion users right now They have the netflix problem (or does nexflix have the Google problem) they have killed off soo many projects that no one want to invest their time into new ones unless they reach the multi-year stage, and they can not reach the multi-year stage unless they get millions of users... It is a catch 22, and neither company seems to want to address or even…

It’s worth noting the competitive space for Google Glass Enterprise is still busy - products like Vuzix and Realware are succeeding at the same use cases.

So if you were in charge of procuring such a solution three years ago and opted not to go for Glass because Google has a history of killing projects, you saved your firm a lot of wasted time and money.

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Post by oh_sigh »

dgrin91 wrote: post #134
lynx23 wrote: post #59

Google Glass, Google Car, Google Plus... Its always the same pattern. A lot of pre-release advertisment, followed by a release of a beta version and another press release declaring the end of the product. At this point, I wouldn't adopt any Google offering because I sort of expect by default it will go away in 6 months or 12.

Google Car as in Waymo? Isn't that still growing and getting expanded? Obviously self driving is harder than everyone thought, but its not abandoned by any means.

I think Google actually got it right for how hard it is. They've pumped billions of dollars into it and their vision was always long term, and they decided to completely skipping the dangerous L2-3 "immediate driver attention may be required at any time" phases. Compare to other self driving tech which is promoted way too early, and only L2-3.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by wouldbecouldbe »

throwaw12 wrote: post #149
wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are we being too hard on Google, or did the company change? When it comes to launching new products, whether innovative or not, they seem to have launched some of the most used products out there: Gmail, Google Calender, Analytics Google Play, Chrome etc. They also did their fair share of copying: Galaxy, Cloud etc. Software wise they've launched Go, Angular, Kubernetes, probably some more. They've succesfully launch…

Let's say 3B unique people use 100 Google products. Their biggest apps get largest amount of users, but there are disjoint number of users using other products, e.g. 100M using Google Reader, 10M using Stadia and so on. For Google, independently it might feel like "only 10M users" will be impacted by deprecation, but in total 500M people might get impacted by deprecating 50 smaller products. Google might think, it is…

We want company's and individuals to be innovative?

But then give them shit for their failures, even if fairly handled. After failure startups leave customers & employees empty handed, Google refunds and pays all.

Even though they've killed many, their successes are really impressive.

This is their graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/

Most are small project, or large project that found continuation some other way. (angular, fitbit etc, who cares about hangout?).

Innovation wise Google is still the most diverse out there. FB, Apple etc. are not creating a very diverse list of products.

And yeah and a lot of products fail, but for most large projects they've handled it nicely.

FB also discontinued a lot of products and became a meme. In the end I would rather they keep trying to create something useful instead of just milking their search revenue till the end of time.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by ProAm »

jacooper wrote: post #85

Now watch apple trigger red alerts in Google's and Samsung's HQ by releasing their AR glasses. As much as i hate Apple products, I can't deny that most of the time they are the leaders and the rest are just copies.

> that most of the time they are the leaders and the rest are just copies.

Apple is almost always a follower and rarely an innovator. They take something that exists, and polishes it. They are very successful at it, but a leader definitely not.

Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by dumpsterlid »

sofixa wrote: post #156
thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #112

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>> Stadia failed as a business, not as a product or technical solution. Stadia failed as a business because it failed to get adoption by developers and gamers / users. It failed to get adoption by developers and gamers because Google has a reputation for killing things. Google has a reputation for killing things because it's leadership does not have a vision outside of advertising and its internal culture does not re…

> Stadia failed as a business because it failed to get adoption by developers and gamers / users. Nonsense. It failed to attract developers because it was an unsure new platform so of course most of them wouldn't spend hours to develop for it. They were always going to need convincing (with money of course), which took Google too long, but around a year or so in there were multiple heavy hitters in the form of Red De…

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Re: Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise

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Post by [deleted] »

danpalmer wrote: post #105
KptMarchewa wrote: post #97

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Because, especially now, we can see lack of it drastically impacting new Google products like Stadia. No one can trust Google to maintain their products at all.

Stadia failed as a business, not as a product or technical solution. I work on Google Play, we've been going for a decade, no sign of stopping now. Much of what I and the many people around me do is maintenance – making things go faster, making things error less, etc. Some of that is done with new features, some is transparent to users (or app developers). I don't see this culture that HN seems so convinced about. I…

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