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Google is a search advertising company not a consumer products company. They haven't had one successful product in hardware yet. Which makes the thought of Goo
by pasta_2 12y ago
Google is a search advertising company not a consumer products company. They haven't had one successful product in hardware yet.
Which makes the thought of Google actually executing on a driverless car pretty laughable.
- adrianlmm 12y agoWhat about Chromecast?
- deelowe 12y agoHuh? What about all the nexus devices or the Chromecast?
- ryanSrich 12y agoI wouldn't exactly call the Chromecast a win from a performance stand point (I'm not sure about their sales). It rarely works as intended. It is constantly freezing and losing connection between devices. For me, Airplay works 10x better and the stream is much smoother (both devices are on the same network).
- _almosnow 12y agoWhat about them? Have you ever peeked into how much market share do they have? Let me guess, no. And Chromecast? Nobody knows what that is aside from geeks obsessed with Google.
- icebraining 12y agoChromecast is currently the 2nd best seller product on Amazon in the Electronics category, having recently dropped from 1st where it stayed for months. On what exactly do you base the idea that nobody knows what it is?
- gohrt 12y agoOn the basis that Apple is cool.
- _almosnow 12y agoIf you compare the reach of AirPlay against the reach of Chromecast there's a difference of at least TWO orders of magnitude; that's my basis. And I'm not an apple fanboy (gohrt), I'm more of a reality fanboy.
- icebraining 12y agoAirPlay is not a device, it's a technology implemented by multiple devices, and it's four years old (compared to Chromecast, which is barely one). Comparing the two directly is nonsensical.
- wfjackson 12y agoAre there any official sales/revenue/margin/profit numbers for the Nexus devices or Chromecast announced by Google?
- minikites 12y agoIf that's enough to make Google a consumer products company then iAd is enough to make Apple an advertising company.
- leo_santagada 12y agodid google made any of the nexus devices? They are a special model of mobile companies like LG and Samsung... so I don't think it counts.
- ahomescu1 12y ago> They haven't had one successful product in hardware yet. Nexus 4 user here, have had it for 2 years and am pretty happy with it (I hear N5 is also pretty good).
- dredmorbius 12y agoGoogle have absolutely killed in the Smartphone market. Not _mostly_ their own devices, though they've introduced a few. The heart and soul of Android is absolutely Google though. Glass was, however, a pretty stunning failure on multiple fronts, and from that and others (G+, backlash over Streetview) I'd argue the company really doesn't get the social positioning of its products.