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Nexus Q should have been considered a house-wide Android extender appliance; a compute node accessible by any and all authorized Android devices. It could be us
by cookiecaper 14y ago
Nexus Q should have been considered a house-wide Android extender appliance; a compute node accessible by any and all authorized Android devices. It could be used to supplement the resource demands of phone apps, to serve as an autoconfigured caching HTTP proxy, etc. There are a lot of possibilities for an appliance like that (w1ntermute's suggestion that it double as Google Fiber's cable box is awesome) and I think it's sad that they felt it needed to be marketed as a $300 collaborative jukebox.
- tnorthcutt 14y agoThe average consumer would have absolutely no idea what that (compute node, resource demands, autoconfigured caching) means. None.
- nitrogen 14y agoThey don't need to understand the tech. Just tell them "your Android devices work up to 3x as fast when you are within Wifi range of this box."
- cookiecaper 14y agoRight, but they'll understand it when their tower defense game says "Get a Nexus Q for cooler auto-generated maps", "Get a Nexus Q for faster load times", or "Get a Nexus Q for LAN multiplayer with all other Android users in range".