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They have an entire hardware division that regularly churns out quite high quality consumer hardware: nest. They also have a pretty big hardware group that make

They have an entire hardware division that regularly churns out quite high quality consumer hardware: nest. They also have a pretty big hardware group that makes high performance servers and specialty hardware (TPU servers among other things). They have a few other hardware divisions as well. Google would have absolutely no issue creating quality fitbit devices. Whether or not the market would be there for them to stay in long term, I don't know.

andreilys 6y ago
Nest was an acquisition so not the best example.
IgorPartola 6y ago
Nest was acquired and was already a mature and popular product. They by no means built it from scratch. And enterprise server products are probably outside the scope of what we are talking about, which is consumer electronics. I can build you a pretty decent server pretty quickly. I wouldn't know where to start to create a smart watch that had good battery life, great screen, great app ecosystem, great sensors, and didn't cost over $400. As far as I know, no consumer electronics Google product had launched and was an instant success. All the first product reviews I've ever read sounded like this: "it's a great first start and as a nerd who knows about these things I enjoyed some innovative parts of it, but it's not ready for prime time. Maybe next year they'll have a more polished product."
- p49k 6y ago
  > Nest was acquired and was already a mature and popular product. They by no means built it from scratch. Sure, but they did come in and add real innovation to the product; for example, adding a secret microphone that wasn't disclosed to the customer.
  - chanmad29 6y ago
    Wow is this real? Crazy Google!
- omosubi 6y ago
  Google's pixel phones were initially pretty well received, especially the camera
pjmlp 6y ago
The same hardware division that came up with Brillo, sorry Android Things, never mind, it is gone now after 3 years anyway. Or those wonderful Android Watches, sorry wearOS, never mind, they aren't getting proper updates for ages now.

andreilys 6y ago

Nest was an acquisition so not the best example.

IgorPartola 6y ago

Nest was acquired and was already a mature and popular product. They by no means built it from scratch. And enterprise server products are probably outside the scope of what we are talking about, which is consumer electronics. I can build you a pretty decent server pretty quickly. I wouldn't know where to start to create a smart watch that had good battery life, great screen, great app ecosystem, great sensors, and didn't cost over $400. As far as I know, no consumer electronics Google product had launched and was an instant success. All the first product reviews I've ever read sounded like this: "it's a great first start and as a nerd who knows about these things I enjoyed some innovative parts of it, but it's not ready for prime time. Maybe next year they'll have a more polished product."

p49k 6y ago
> Nest was acquired and was already a mature and popular product. They by no means built it from scratch. Sure, but they did come in and add real innovation to the product; for example, adding a secret microphone that wasn't disclosed to the customer.
- chanmad29 6y ago
  Wow is this real? Crazy Google!
omosubi 6y ago
Google's pixel phones were initially pretty well received, especially the camera

pjmlp 6y ago

The same hardware division that came up with Brillo, sorry Android Things, never mind, it is gone now after 3 years anyway. Or those wonderful Android Watches, sorry wearOS, never mind, they aren't getting proper updates for ages now.