It's astonishing how much Sundar has managed to tarnish Google's brand over the past few years with decisions like this that optimize for short-term gains at the expense of long-term reputational damage and customer goodwill.
Chromecast Google TV now has full-screen auto-playing Chicken Tender Wrap ads
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#22Mistaken comment. Unable to delete.
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#23After years of investing into Google Home, I'm trying to unwind it. The assistant devices have gotten buggier and less responsive. The TV is bloated with ever more ads and suggested videos. They end of lifed the nest security system. Not a good trajectory.
Same, I'm looking into using home assistant as a replacement. Out of curiosity, what are you considering as an alarm replacement?
Have you considered a dog?
I've always heard that the calculus for a break-in was that even if you had an alarm, they had N minutes to Supermarket Sweep the place before the cops arrived.
Conversely, if there's a surly Rottweiler pacing in the yard, there's the distinct risk if immediate interception.
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#24Google has lost all hope. Sundar Pinchai is at the helm of the next Titanic and missed the icebergs..... they have failed to innovate and have doubled down on a losing strategy....I expect a race to the bottom until it kicks and they replace him....but it won't fix the issues... it's too late. the company is now gorging on the corpse of society that it has nothing left to provide....it has become parasitic
Maybe it would have been better to let him go to Twitter if this article holds any truth: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-shakeup-theory-sundar...
I’ll say that ever since he became CEO the company hasn’t innovated that much. A lot of services get propped up with fanfare then get cut out of the blue. The Google Graveyard seems to have grown a lot with him around.
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#25It's sad to see greatness crumble from the inside.
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#26I have the old Chromecast that came without a remote and it is great. It just sits there showing nature photos until I select something to watch using my phone. I also have a "Google TV" one that comes with remote and it is terrible. The home screen is full of crap that I do not want. It suggests stupid youtube stuff for the kids. I have not figured out how to make it act like the old Chromecast.
The old Chromecast (without Google TV) also plays much fewer ads for YouTube. I'm holding on to mine.
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#27Google has lost all hope. Sundar Pinchai is at the helm of the next Titanic and missed the icebergs..... they have failed to innovate and have doubled down on a losing strategy....I expect a race to the bottom until it kicks and they replace him....but it won't fix the issues... it's too late. the company is now gorging on the corpse of society that it has nothing left to provide....it has become parasitic
This is just how Google is now. Their brand is cheap and tacky. You think there would ever be ads on the Apple TV?
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#28What's the difference between Android TV and Google TV? Android TV (on my Nvidia Shield) added "recommendations", which are really just ads for streaming service content you may or may not have, but are otherwise associated with things in the ecosystem. Maybe a harbinger of things to come. Like Amazon Prime Video pre-roll ads for Prime content being replaced by regular ads.
Google has reused those terms for about 20 products they have created, killed, and renamed over the years.
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#29Looks like Google is pushing or at least trialing full-screen, non-media-content, loud advertisements on their "Google TV" branded products. While this is for Chromecasts, it is possible it's coming to regular Google TV next...
> it is possible it's coming to regular Google TV next We've all seen this show before and we all know how it plays out: 1) "We have an ad free service!" 2) "We're going to start showing promotions for our own products - they don't count as ads" 3) "We're going to start showing ads for our partners but they'll only be a few seconds long and you can skip them" 4) "We're introducing unskippable ads" 5) "We're now injec…
Now we're introducing ads into the paid tier. so sorry.
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#30What's the difference between Android TV and Google TV? Android TV (on my Nvidia Shield) added "recommendations", which are really just ads for streaming service content you may or may not have, but are otherwise associated with things in the ecosystem. Maybe a harbinger of things to come. Like Amazon Prime Video pre-roll ads for Prime content being replaced by regular ads.
I love my shield TV Pro, but I might `adb shell pm uninstall` the shit out of it, so I can launch my apps in peace. The Update that replaces the old launcher was the biggest middle finger I ever saw. And it's a 200€+ device. This isn't your average 20€ Amazon Fire crap.
The middle-finger update seems to be geo-fenced. On my fully updated shield, the launcher is almost the same as the original one -- it just got a new apps tab on the top; no recommendations, no ads. So hopefully it will stay that way.