Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
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Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#2Not very surprising.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#3Google 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 example of too big to fail.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#4Google 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.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#5Not very surprising.
I wonder if Google would benefit from spinning up new products and services in another brand or company. Later, they could migrate only what they plan on supporting in the long run.
The cost of deprecating products every couple months has to be expensive - if only we could measure it.
Is anyone aware of a good response to this concern?
I understand that Google would rather deprecate something that not support it well but that does not mitigate the apparent risk of adopting / deploying Google products.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#6Building hardware is difficult. Like really difficult. More difficult that anyone expects it to be.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#7Not very surprising.
I wonder if Google would benefit from spinning up new products and services in another brand or company. Later, they could migrate only what they plan on supporting in the long run. The cost of deprecating products every couple months has to be expensive - if only we could measure it. Is anyone aware of a good response to this concern? I understand that Google would rather deprecate something that not support it well…
That's what I figured they would do with Motorola, especially with the move to Alphabet. On the other hand, if it's under another brand name people may not associate it with "first party". When the Nexus line came out, one of the big selling features was "Android straight from Google themselves". If it was from Motorola, it'd be "Android straight from Google themselves because Google owns Motorola so hopefully their internal corporate structure means the two divisions have a close working relationship otherwise what's the point".
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#8Google 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 have experience with all three of them, indeed Azure fails miserably, AWS is a bit better but I didn't spend much time there. GCP is the most solid one and I had the least troubles there.
Re: Google Hardware makes cuts to laptop and tablet development, cancels products
#9It seems that the company is entirely unable to have a vision about anything.
Too big to dare might also be a good way to describe them. They are not going to dare making e.g. one great messaging product (or even 2 .. there are after all some niches like office communication). Instead they do 7 and see which one works.
Apparently launching a new product is also the only sure way to get a promotion at Google, not improving an existing one.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 have experience with all three of them, indeed Azure fails miserably, AWS is a bit better but I didn't spend much time there. GCP is the most solid one and I had the least troubles there.
I use Azure at work and GCP for personal projects. GCP is by far the cleanest, easiest to work with