This is really going to make 5 people angry.
Google IoT Core will be discontinued on Aug. 16, 2023
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>few believe Stadia will stay around I think the people that still think Stadia is gonna shut down any time soon are just the gamer blogs/communities that have been running shutdown rumor pieces every month or so for the last 3 years. (Most recently the killedbygoogle guy's "my friend heard on facebook that Stadia's shutting down..." post that went viral.) Stadia's actively signing hardware deals with Samsung/LG and…
Twitter users who apparently play Stadia tell quite a different story in every encounter I've had with them.
I play Stadia. Couples of weeks ago, ToS change. Couple of days ago, an ad on my LG TV that if i sign up for Stadia i get 3 months free, and the Stadia app is very prominently shown in the Applications menu. Same on my ISP's Android TV box. Each month ~10 games get added to the Stadia Pro tier.
Stadia isn't going anywhere soon, or the people working in the division haven't been told and have continued spending money left and right with partnership deals, which would be a weird waste of money.
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#134So Google is basically breaking their commitments to their own users again, they don't give a fuck about back-compatibility as usual, they feel like the whole world should care of what their internal product teams want to do, and they feel entitled to set whatever arbitrary deadline for users to migrate (usually less than a year), and if you don't migrate then your money-making software will just stop working. Oh, and of course they provide no customer support whatsoever nor any way to provide feedback - because, of course, it's Google, and it needs to be dumbly unhuman and faceless to the core.
Google has become an abomination and a complete denial of what software is supposed to be. It deserves to die in a ball of fire, and none of its shitty products should be spared.
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Yeah IoT definitely seems to be following Google's messaging strategy - if the platform isn't a runaway success, delete it and start again. Maybe people will love the new platform!
Are they too spoiled by the early days of the internet when that would happen regularly because they were simply first? Does it ever still happen?
"spoiled" in the sense of having gone bad, maybe. It does appear this is a deeply ingrained cultural assumption they aren't getting rid of (no clue if they try). The usual meme is of course "nobody gets promoted for maintaining a not-so-successful service"...
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#137Pretty wild for IOT. Short of extensive OTA update infra being in place that likely bricks devices in the field
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#138I'd think IoT-related services (especially an entire gateway) would have years-long deprecation schedules, not a single year. If you coupled your product to cloud-based updates only (no companion app stuff), then this means your unsold inventory right now has a timer to be sold until it's dead and requires shipping back for manual updating.
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#1403 years ago Google killed off Android Things[1] and told everyone to migrate to IoT Core. Now IoT Core is dead. But don't worry about all that, just connect with your Google Cloud account manager! They'll tell you exactly which Google platform you should migrate to next. [1]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/an-update-...
Why I only target Android with the NDK, or Web apps?
Because while they are natively supported on the device, they aren't tied to Android's future.