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Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by rcme »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #24

The list is a bit dishonest. Google Code Jam was not a product, and it was an event that was a net loss in terms of revenue, which is hard to justify maintaining when you are cutting thousands of jobs. Google Street View is part of Google Maps, the post even says so. Google OnHub is a one time hardware product. Nobody is blaming Nintendo for killing the Gameboy Color when it stopped producing it. I don't see how any…

Regarding OnHub:

> Then in January 2023, the company rendered the product almost completely useless by disabling most of its features.

I think GameBoy Color still works today?

Also, the list is missing Nest Secure.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by steveBK123 »

bigyikes wrote: post #6

Surely the people working at Google understand how all these shutdowns look to outsiders, right? I have to imagine so… they’re smart people, and a ton of them lurk here on HN. It’s interesting to me that they continue to spawn and nix products like this despite the reputation damage it causes. Anyone wanna bet on if/when Bard gets axed?

I will continue my existing strategy of ignoring everything GOOG releases so I can also ignore when they inevitably shut it down too.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by 4ninesfine »

fnordian_slip wrote: post #7

I have never even heard of Google Jacquard, was it maybe advertised more in the US than in Europe? It seems like an interesting concept, since hands-free control of your phone via speech is often too awkward to use in public imho. Maybe it'll come back when the hardware is able to shrink even more, making it less conspicuous.

I actually got a Levi's / google jacquard trucker jacket (on a good sale). It had potential but Google never seemed to do anything with it. It's pretty inconspicuous already but the Google app for it is very limited. If they open source it I think we could have some fun with the tech.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by illiarian »

manojlds wrote: post #5
dubcanada wrote: post #4

Ouch, not a good look when people lose almost complete faith in your hardware products. Every one I know of has been shut down at this point. Why would I buy a Google Hardware ever? Especially considering how they treated the Onhub... Stadia Onhub Glass

Pixel is doing better than ever though.

Does it though? Especially in the context of Google, and Google Products? John Gruber summarised it correctly: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/09/12/google-pixel-po...

And Google's approach to Pixels reflects that: they make them greta, then they all but abandon them, then okay again, then...

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by gondaloof »

remirk wrote: post #29

The dedicated Streetview app was finally killed because streetview is already integrated in regular google maps. To me, that seems like a good reason to discontinue the dedicated app. I don't get the reasoning behind this article. Half of this list is side projects which didn't work out, which is understandable to a certain degree. The article feels like blogspam riding on the hypetrain of people disliking when googl…

You could say the same about Google Earth on mobile. Do you need a separate app? I’m honestly surprised it still exists.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by jzb »

criddell wrote: post #48
klabb3 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I had a penny for every time I hear this.. yes they had big layoffs, but they also hired like crazy for a long time. Fuchsia is maybe 1/4 product and the rest is a long term infrastructure investment. If Google had lost interest they’d have no problem shutting it down by now, for instance stadia rose and fell in a shorter time span than all of fuchsia. I don’t know whether fuchsia will “make it”, heck a frustrated…

> If Google had lost interest they’d have no problem shutting it down by now It does feel like they’ve lost a lot of interest in Android. It’s too big for Google to just close, but I could see them selling it. If that happens, hopefully it’s to a Microsoft but chances are they will screw us all and sell it to Oracle or Xiaomi. But there are a lot of things that will die before Android or Fuschia. Here’s a list of 270…

One hopes the Google/Oracle relationship is such that Google would sell Android to any company except Oracle.

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by blibble »

coremoff wrote: post #37
blibble wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

did they manage convince to samsung to fix the critical vulnerabilities that require you to turn off your mobile data yet? otherwise you can be pwned by a phone call https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte... phones from mid 2022 seem like abandonware already

those bugs were fixed in early March https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2023...

a few of them were (3)

out of 18 or so

you can see on the linked page on google's own bugtracker that they're still unfixed

Re: Google has already pulled six products in 2023

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Post by blibble »

jve wrote: post #32
blibble wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

did they manage convince to samsung to fix the critical vulnerabilities that require you to turn off your mobile data yet? otherwise you can be pwned by a phone call https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-inte... phones from mid 2022 seem like abandonware already

Misinformation. > require you to turn off your mobile data yet Wifi calling and VoLTE is not mobile data. > phones from mid 2022 seem like abandonware already Samsung supports updates for multiple years. Mid 2022 gets you previous samsung model - S22, where S23 was released this year 2023.

sorry, when I said mobile data I actually meant "all cellular communications", which is far more broad

for some reason Android allows carriers to hide the VoLTE and Wifi calling toggles in the UI

meaning the only fix is to turn cellular connectivity off completely

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