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This is a really interesting project, and I wonder how long until Google unceremoniously cancels it and drops support for anyone who's bought into it.

barbazoo 5y ago
And have they announced yet how they're planning to invade my privacy with this?
- goldenchrome 5y ago
  Well, they'll have extensive 3D data about your body and your house.
acdha 5y ago
This is getting downvoted but it really is a valid concern. Google’s been losing users on each discontinuation and only the most pro-Google techies I know are still jumping in to something new, especially given the trend towards one cool feature and a bunch of “QA is boring” stuff which will take a year to get fixed. Given their past reputation, it’s really cautionary as a shareholder to hear C-level questions about services like GCP questioning the risks of not going with AWS/Azure and getting stranded. That’s a big deal for anything which requires hardware you wouldn’t otherwise own. Once you hear “custom-built hardware and highly specialized equipment” that sounds like something you really want a commitment to not just begrudgingly patch but to continue to seriously invest in the product.
- jsnell 5y ago
  It's getting downvoted because it is repetitive, with thousands of effectively identical copies being posted on HN yearly. It is not insightful. It is not clever. It's not reacting to the story, except for lazy pattern matching. It is just a tired meme that's been flogged all the way down to the bone by now. (It's probably also not true, when compared to Google's peers. Amazon and Microsoft similarly throw a bunch of stuff on the wall, and unceremoniously kill the failures, but neither their launches nor cancellations get this reaction.)
JohnWhigham 5y ago
I imagine it will be like Google Glass. Tons of hype with the initial announcement, sobering realization that it's too expensive for mass market adoption, and its eventual settling into a niche market. And its inevitable discontinuation.

barbazoo 5y ago

And have they announced yet how they're planning to invade my privacy with this?

goldenchrome 5y ago
Well, they'll have extensive 3D data about your body and your house.

acdha 5y ago

This is getting downvoted but it really is a valid concern. Google’s been losing users on each discontinuation and only the most pro-Google techies I know are still jumping in to something new, especially given the trend towards one cool feature and a bunch of “QA is boring” stuff which will take a year to get fixed. Given their past reputation, it’s really cautionary as a shareholder to hear C-level questions about services like GCP questioning the risks of not going with AWS/Azure and getting stranded. That’s a big deal for anything which requires hardware you wouldn’t otherwise own. Once you hear “custom-built hardware and highly specialized equipment” that sounds like something you really want a commitment to not just begrudgingly patch but to continue to seriously invest in the product.

jsnell 5y ago
It's getting downvoted because it is repetitive, with thousands of effectively identical copies being posted on HN yearly. It is not insightful. It is not clever. It's not reacting to the story, except for lazy pattern matching. It is just a tired meme that's been flogged all the way down to the bone by now. (It's probably also not true, when compared to Google's peers. Amazon and Microsoft similarly throw a bunch of stuff on the wall, and unceremoniously kill the failures, but neither their launches nor cancellations get this reaction.)

JohnWhigham 5y ago

I imagine it will be like Google Glass. Tons of hype with the initial announcement, sobering realization that it's too expensive for mass market adoption, and its eventual settling into a niche market. And its inevitable discontinuation.