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To support both. To not build the tech equivalent of fast fashion.

• Waterluvian 4y ago
  That isn’t sensible from a product perspective. Engineering stuff for a peripheral “in case our company fails.”
  • benatkin 4y ago
    That's like creating clothes to only be worn a few times because you're targeting people who buy lots of clothes. A controller is an input device similar to a mouse and keyboard and ought to support standards so it can work with different devices. This "product perspective" seems to be that of IKEA and McDonald's.
  • TechBro8615 4y ago
    And yet they managed to add the feature after the product failed.
    • lolinder 4y ago
      Yes, because now they know customers actually will need it.
      • sangnoir 4y ago
        All customer purchases were refunded - including the hardware. This is a goodwill gesture, and the people at Stadia have my gratitude.
        • lolinder 4y ago
          Also true! My point was just that it wasn't malicious of them to not initially build a feature they didn't intend to use.
• surajrmal 4y ago
  You are assuming there was room on the device to support both at the same time. The amount of RAM/storage to support a Bluetooth stack may seem small but it's not for tiny devices. I'm sure they devoted resources to the WiFi path that the product was designed for instead.