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If you joined Google's Glass Explorer program (twice?!) expecting anything but a beta-level device with a short shelf life then more fool you. I don't think the

by enneff 12y ago

If you joined Google's Glass Explorer program (twice?!) expecting anything but a beta-level device with a short shelf life then more fool you. I don't think they could have been any more explicit about the goals of their program.

72deluxe 12y ago
I think his point stands though, that Google cannot be trusted to keep services going. This will adversely affect their appeal in many minds, including mine. I have used Google since about 1998 (?) and you'd be amazed how many products have come and gone in that time. Apologies for the rantiness of the post below, it isn't meant aggressively, just more frustration at no apparent direction seen within the Googlesphere. The removal of features that people use with no warning and non-implementation of features immediately after release is really really annoying. It makes their stated goals ("index everything") meaningless/temporary/untrustworthy, and dissuades me from buying services from them. Freeloaders use their products a lot (I do!) but I would think twice about ever ever ever paying for software from them, or for a service because you have no idea when it'll shut shop. Even products they still produce appear to be completely disjointed (see the Play Books app on Android and the complete disparity found with their web interface...) Here's a list of annoyances in products they've released to much fanfare, then apparently just not bothered developing anymore: 1. Google+, yes all of it. And I use it! (where is it going now that Gundotra has left?) 2. Maps: My Maps now isn't integrated into the Android app (they spun it off??), Latitude is gone, Google Local is gone but apparently still there (you can read reviews but hidden and secret GUI controls are now the order of the day for working out how to do anything in Google Maps) 3. Google Drive desktop client: will it ever tell me how far it has got in uploading a massive file? The web client does, the desktop one doesn't. Surely that's an OBVIOUS feature in a filesync utility. Don't ask about their promised Linux version. Couldn't they write it in Go or something? 4. Google Hangouts Android client: the forced update from Talk with the removal of features (is someone actually online? a presence feature seen since MSN Messenger that somehow escapes Google's notice) 5. Google Chrome OS: why is it even here? There was much talk of being stiff competition to Windows and OSX but it's like an Etch-A-Sketch toy operating system. I think TinyCore Linux does more? I'll stop now because it's coming up to lunch time and I'll get indigestion. I am a big fan of Android, but their incessant removal of features within their core apps and then rereleases of similar-but-ever-so-slightly-different apps ever year at I/O is getting wearisome.

by enneff 12y ago

72deluxe 12y ago

I think his point stands though, that Google cannot be trusted to keep services going. This will adversely affect their appeal in many minds, including mine. I have used Google since about 1998 (?) and you'd be amazed how many products have come and gone in that time. Apologies for the rantiness of the post below, it isn't meant aggressively, just more frustration at no apparent direction seen within the Googlesphere. The removal of features that people use with no warning and non-implementation of features immediately after release is really really annoying. It makes their stated goals ("index everything") meaningless/temporary/untrustworthy, and dissuades me from buying services from them. Freeloaders use their products a lot (I do!) but I would think twice about ever ever ever paying for software from them, or for a service because you have no idea when it'll shut shop. Even products they still produce appear to be completely disjointed (see the Play Books app on Android and the complete disparity found with their web interface...) Here's a list of annoyances in products they've released to much fanfare, then apparently just not bothered developing anymore: 1. Google+, yes all of it. And I use it! (where is it going now that Gundotra has left?) 2. Maps: My Maps now isn't integrated into the Android app (they spun it off??), Latitude is gone, Google Local is gone but apparently still there (you can read reviews but hidden and secret GUI controls are now the order of the day for working out how to do anything in Google Maps) 3. Google Drive desktop client: will it ever tell me how far it has got in uploading a massive file? The web client does, the desktop one doesn't. Surely that's an OBVIOUS feature in a filesync utility. Don't ask about their promised Linux version. Couldn't they write it in Go or something? 4. Google Hangouts Android client: the forced update from Talk with the removal of features (is someone actually online? a presence feature seen since MSN Messenger that somehow escapes Google's notice) 5. Google Chrome OS: why is it even here? There was much talk of being stiff competition to Windows and OSX but it's like an Etch-A-Sketch toy operating system. I think TinyCore Linux does more? I'll stop now because it's coming up to lunch time and I'll get indigestion. I am a big fan of Android, but their incessant removal of features within their core apps and then rereleases of similar-but-ever-so-slightly-different apps ever year at I/O is getting wearisome.