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> There will always be a niche that wants to do music production or engineering and can't afford Apple productions. If Google cared about niches, they wouldn't

> There will always be a niche that wants to do music production or engineering and can't afford Apple productions. If Google cared about niches, they wouldn't have such a large graveyard of dead products - some of which were profitable and some of which were widely loved.

im3w1l 6y ago
Caring is not a binary. A product has a much larger ongoing cost than low latency audio, so there is more of a reason to kill it.
- Judgmentality 6y ago
  Features require maintenance the same as products. If this feature is enough to go after entire new categories of customers, aka musicians, this feature effectively defines a new product opportunity for Google. Also Android is already buggy as fuck, so every new feature they add actually is a big deal. Ever since Google killed Reader I have no faith in them to ever maintain anything that isn't directly selling ads.
  - im3w1l 6y ago
    If they achieve a low audio latency, how much headcount do you think is needed to keep it low? A small fraction of an engineer, I suspect.
    - Judgmentality 6y ago
      This is the reason I don't trust Google. What was the headcount to maintain Google Reader? I'm pretty sure an intern could do it part-time. Also if it's part of Android, I bet it will unravel a bunch of hidden bugs that haven't been exposed before. Like I said, Android is already buggy as fuck. My Pixel 4a freezes/crashes regularly and Google told me (paraphrasing) "it just does that."
      - im3w1l 6y ago
        Well first you need a couple of UI people to move the buttons around every once in a while to keep people on their toes. Then you need a few people keeping the backend up with deprecations, a qa person, a few people making sure porn doesn't get into Trends, and a few SRE people to make sure the servers aren't going up in flames.
dmix 6y ago
I was referring to App Store not Google itself... Once the tech is capable the software will come.

im3w1l 6y ago

Caring is not a binary. A product has a much larger ongoing cost than low latency audio, so there is more of a reason to kill it.

Judgmentality 6y ago
Features require maintenance the same as products. If this feature is enough to go after entire new categories of customers, aka musicians, this feature effectively defines a new product opportunity for Google. Also Android is already buggy as fuck, so every new feature they add actually is a big deal. Ever since Google killed Reader I have no faith in them to ever maintain anything that isn't directly selling ads.
- im3w1l 6y ago
  If they achieve a low audio latency, how much headcount do you think is needed to keep it low? A small fraction of an engineer, I suspect.
  - Judgmentality 6y ago
    This is the reason I don't trust Google. What was the headcount to maintain Google Reader? I'm pretty sure an intern could do it part-time. Also if it's part of Android, I bet it will unravel a bunch of hidden bugs that haven't been exposed before. Like I said, Android is already buggy as fuck. My Pixel 4a freezes/crashes regularly and Google told me (paraphrasing) "it just does that."
    - im3w1l 6y ago
      Well first you need a couple of UI people to move the buttons around every once in a while to keep people on their toes. Then you need a few people keeping the backend up with deprecations, a qa person, a few people making sure porn doesn't get into Trends, and a few SRE people to make sure the servers aren't going up in flames.

dmix 6y ago

I was referring to App Store not Google itself... Once the tech is capable the software will come.