They really do kill something off every other week, don’t they?
I remember reading somewhere that employees are heavily incentivized to create new things. Invent something, develop something, just get something NEW out, but there are no incentives to support existing projects. Once a feature or product is complete and released, nobody wants to stay on the team to support it, and there’s no perceived value in even continuing to produce it, much less evolve it.
That’s why Google is always churning out new stuff, and then letting it languish and die. There’s no internal money for support, only invention.
They really need to just lease these innovations out to new teams that’ll maintain them, or at least just open source it all.
They’d probably make a killing if they kept just making stuff then selling the infrastructure to other companies once they’re bored.
Sounds like American infrastructure…
That sounds like south Asian mentality, I mean I’m not saying it’s because of south Asians, but just that it’s a very similar thought process, most observable when it comes to buying new houses, people in India/pakistan where people won’t mind paying large sums of money upfront for fancy condominiums, but will not pay high maintenance fees to keep the fancy facilities going.
“Former Google employee reveals dark secrets, ‘raising of a new god’ fed by scrapped projects”
Its not a killing, its a rebranding. Its just being called a killed device because its Google.
Its like claiming Apple is killing iPhones every few years.
“Apple killing iPhone S” in 2018.
“Apple killing iPhone C” in 2014, another for the Apple graveyard.
“Apple killing iPhone Plus” in 2018, another for the Apple graveyard.
“Apple killing the iPhone SE” in 2023, another for the Apple graveyard.
“Apple killing iPhone Mini” in 2022, another for the Apple graveyard.
This doesn’t even include other devices like the G models, Unibodies, and Retina iMac models. Just look at that Apple graveyard growing and so quickly…
This could also be claimed on things from most other large, older tech companies. But the reality is, a rebranding is not a killing of the device. This is just clickbait.
…These are all the same line of phones.
And these are the same line of devices in the article, just with different names. Exactly the same thing, only difference is who the makers are.
I really hate this fucking trend of them putting dedicated Netflix and Hulu buttons on remote controls. I refuse to buy anything with this “Feature”. You absolutely cannot avoid advertising on every…single…fucking…thing.
Have you found a generic remote, I hve been looking but the only one I found was the one Logitech discontinued
I use a jailbroken FireTV HD; and I have to keep buying used remotes off of Ebay (the 2nd gen remotes). I don’t have a chromecast modern enough to have come with a remote.
it’s both hilarious and sad that you have to jailbreak your remote to get it to not have ads
Yeah, I don’t have to modify the remote at all. It’s a FireTV remote; just from the previous gen. The jailbroken FireTV is just so I can sideload AndroidTV apps.
I remapped my Netflix button to Plex and YouTube to SmartTube. I suppose I could sand off and repaint them.
How you do this dark magic?
They didn’t really kill it off. They just updated it and changed the name.
And made it less affordable and less portable. Unfortunate, at least I still have the HD model for when I travel.
I wouldn’t see how the new model is the updated version of the Chromecast, I don’t see myself carrying that thing to every hotel I stay in.
At 99$ the Google TV streamer better not have ads on the launcher
Press 🇽 for doubt.
It will lol. Just got an apple tv for my new tv instead of Google cause on my Google TV devices I have shit like Burger King ads.
Sure, my tv has built in apps for all that shit, but they’re slow as frozen molasses. It would take me minutes to scroll to the bottom of my YouTube subscriptions, and there were only 90 of them.
My in-laws internal player (on a brand new tbv) kept having codec errors (digital static) in hd broadcasts, so we bought them one too.
why is anyone surprised considering they already replaced it with the superior google tv with chromecast like years ago
