Well damn... I have my dev environment running very nicely in a Pixelbook via Crostini and love it.
Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
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#12Google can't seem to do anything right anymore. They're last place in cloud. They don't have a good search API product to compete with Algolia/Elasticsearch. They can't release new products. Can't build new hardware. The only things they have going for them are Youtube, Google (the search engine), Android, Chrome,... Basically everything they did 10 years ago. Even Android + Youtube were acquisitions. Another good ex…
Google is their own worst enemy in cloud.
They raised pricing on Google Maps and have a reputation for dropping services.
Now they require a $75k third party audit to have an app use Gmail API’s.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#13Google can't seem to do anything right anymore. They're last place in cloud. They don't have a good search API product to compete with Algolia/Elasticsearch. They can't release new products. Can't build new hardware. The only things they have going for them are Youtube, Google (the search engine), Android, Chrome,... Basically everything they did 10 years ago. Even Android + Youtube were acquisitions. Another good ex…
Have 8 products with over a billion active users. Fastest growing smartphone brand US. YouTube TV fastest growing of the TV streaming services.
Plus leasing in the self driving race. Flutter already over 50k stars GitHub.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2019/02/09/googl... [Update] Google Pixel Is 'Fastest-Growing US Smartphone Brand'
https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/youtube-tv-is-more-popular-t... YouTube TV is More Popular Than DIRECTV NOW, PlayStation ...
https://github.com/flutter/flutter flutter/flutter - GitHub
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#14Google can't seem to do anything right anymore. They're last place in cloud. They don't have a good search API product to compete with Algolia/Elasticsearch. They can't release new products. Can't build new hardware. The only things they have going for them are Youtube, Google (the search engine), Android, Chrome,... Basically everything they did 10 years ago. Even Android + Youtube were acquisitions. Another good ex…
So, Google makes (specifically subcontracts out) the Pixel (but it is their branded device). It definitely is not the most popular Android phone out there.
Google makes the Pixelbook. It is definitely not the "best" laptop when you consider less expensive alternatives, and it is not the best seller.
But, Android would be called a successful strategy.
And, Chromebooks would be called a successful strategy.
What I'm trying to say (and would love to hear comments suggesting otherwise) is that these forays into hardware might just be to guarantee a baseline level of quality for vendors of the products to aspire to. And, in that light, even if the hardware divisions aren't making a dent in the Google's reported revenue, they still serve and were effective in their goals.
These cutbacks are just evidence that Google wants to optimize the way things are done, not evidence that they were failures.
GCP is a different beast, however. :)
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#15Well damn... I have my dev environment running very nicely in a Pixelbook via Crostini and love it.
Same here...crostini is awesome and I absolutely love the portability and keyboard/trackpad of the pixelbook.
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#16Google can't seem to do anything right anymore. They're last place in cloud. They don't have a good search API product to compete with Algolia/Elasticsearch. They can't release new products. Can't build new hardware. The only things they have going for them are Youtube, Google (the search engine), Android, Chrome,... Basically everything they did 10 years ago. Even Android + Youtube were acquisitions. Another good ex…
So, Google makes (specifically subcontracts out) the Pixel (but it is their branded device). It definitely is not the most popular Android phone out there. Google makes the Pixelbook. It is definitely not the "best" laptop when you consider less expensive alternatives, and it is not the best seller. But, Android would be called a successful strategy. And, Chromebooks would be called a successful strategy. What I'm tr…
The problem with Chromebooks is that they have always been touted as a way to get a computer very cheaply. Years have gone by with the marketing being that Chromebooks are cheap. When you get pixelbooks that are $600 to $1500 people are going to have sticker shock, no matter how great the product is.
The pixel phones on the other hand have been selling better ( in fact grew quite a bit numbers wise as well ). The phone line has a better chance of turning in to the Googles surface line esp. since the marketing around that has been "Its the best camera ever" and people are willing to pay a premium for that.
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#17Sounds like a good reason not to buy new hardware from Google. They discontinue products too fast.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#18Google can't seem to do anything right anymore. They're last place in cloud. They don't have a good search API product to compete with Algolia/Elasticsearch. They can't release new products. Can't build new hardware. The only things they have going for them are Youtube, Google (the search engine), Android, Chrome,... Basically everything they did 10 years ago. Even Android + Youtube were acquisitions. Another good ex…
GCP is the cleanest cloud platform by far. But it's also the one I know only in theory, whereas I have worked with Azure and AWS enough to seem them fail miserably, so maybe I have a case of rose-tinted glasses.
I haven't experienced this failure with AWS. I've had good experiences with both GCP and AWS, and a handful of terrible experiences with Azure. I don't know your particular use-case, but I end up being clean-up for AWS disasters, and each one's root cause was poor planning and/or execution. Likely the result of an over-ambitious employee or contractor trying to implement by the seat of their pants.
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#19I'll take this as the sign that entirety of Chromebook is at high risk of being canceled.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#20Google can't seem to do anything right anymore. They're last place in cloud. They don't have a good search API product to compete with Algolia/Elasticsearch. They can't release new products. Can't build new hardware. The only things they have going for them are Youtube, Google (the search engine), Android, Chrome,... Basically everything they did 10 years ago. Even Android + Youtube were acquisitions. Another good ex…
Even Android is not done right.
- Android J++
- Kotlin, the successor, still faces lots of tooling issues, regarding incremental builds, code completion, thin APKs,...
- NDK users keep being neglected, after 10 years there is still no alternative to manually write JNI boilerplate, handle native libraries, a proper C++ API in the NDK, the ones that exist like Oboe are either plain code dumps on GitHub, or use Blaze, which isn't part of the standard SDK tooling, IDE tools if they get added always feel like an afterthought to their Java/Kotlin counterparts
- Stable support library and Android Studio releases have as much bugs as canary ones
- Android Studio feels like it needs a rendering workstation to work properly
The last two points have escalated so high that they finally created Project Marble to improve the current state of affairs.
OEMs love Android only because it is free beer.