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“Moving forward, we’ll deliver a single consumer and developer experience through the Google Assistant.” ...until 18 months from now when the Android team has
by skywhopper 7y ago
“Moving forward, we’ll deliver a single consumer and developer experience through the Google Assistant.”
...until 18 months from now when the Android team has more political sway and we announce “Android Home”, a new unified home automation platform to bring all your devices together in one easy to use system, which will allow you to turn your lights off by simply blinking into one of the many Google cameras mounted in your home.
This will be followed in 2022 with the new “Chrome@Home” platform, which will revolutionize home automation by letting you send and receive Morse code messagess with your neighbors via innovative light-turning-off-and-on technology.
Finally, in 2025 we will announce the revolutionary “GoogleOne” home automation system which will allow you to set minimum reading-light thresholds for your teenage children who insist on reading in too-dark rooms simply by yelling “how can you even read in this room?? You’ll go blind if you don’t turn on a light!!” while standing in the appropriate room of your home.
- jdavis703 7y agoOn the consumer side Google wants to build billion user products (I’ve heard Google product managers say this). Products that cross that threshold like GMail, Chrome and Android don’t get cancelled. I’m not sure what the enterprise equivalent is to a billion users, perhaps a billion dollars? Regardless offerings like Google App Engine have been around for decades now.
- panpanna 7y agoThis is Google we are taking about. If anything, some of these products will overlap in time causing great confusion.
- da_chicken 7y agoAnd the only one that ever leaves beta will be terminated 18 months later. Sorry Google, I need my house to work for the next 30+ years. Honeywell sucks, but they at least understand that.
- ravenstine 7y agoI've seen this same satire about Google multiple times on HN, and have made the same point before myself; I'm curious how many Google employees understand why more and more people are seeing Google's product lines as a joke in that sense. Google makes working software and devices, but does anyone feel like they can count on Google for anything? It seems like few do at this point, and it's mystifying that the higher ups at Google don't seem interested in addressing that perception unless enough people complain, despite the dissatisfaction being totally predictable. I really wonder whether, if someone with any clout at Google read your comment, they would get the joke or not understand.
- pjmlp 7y agoI gave up on native Android, because every year the best practices get rebooted, they don't give a dam about future Java compatibility (Java 8+) and after 10 years, NDK is still WIP. One example, the whole story with fragments, then now that they finally have a good story with constraint layout, after three years in the making, they are introducing a Kotlin based DSL. At least the Chrome team gets a solid story with their PWAs, also supported by other vendors.
- iamtheworstdev 7y agoCan you blame them about abandoning Java thanks to Oracle?
- pjmlp 7y agoThey don't have anyone to blame but themselves. First they screw Sun and then don't bother to buy Sun's assets when given the opportunity. Lots of third party JVM vendors are able to deliver improvements into the Java world, while staying in peace with Sun, now Oracle. Google being the exception. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machine... The Java community doesn't need Android J++.
- erikpukinskis 7y ago
- jasonhansel 7y ago2025 operating system market share: 25% Google Chrome for Android 25% Google Android for Chrome 50% Android Legacy Edition (deprecated)