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Features require maintenance the same as products. If this feature is enough to go after entire new categories of customers, aka musicians, this feature effect
by 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 agoIf 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 agoThis 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 agoWell 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.