...for being able to trust in the success of their popular products enough to commit more time and floorspace to promoting their up-and-coming and obscure products and projects.
Lots of companies fail to understand this, and often those companies grow stagnant trying to push the same or nearly-the-same products on the same few customers until they die off.
Car companies do the same thing though, in that they develop and unveil fairly awesome concept cars but only integrate little bits and pieces into their product lines.
Honestly it was a shock when Chrysler released the Plymouth Prowler almost unchanged from its concept-roots. In that instance I think they wanted to test large-scale manufacturing with what were considered fairly exotic materials (lots and lots of aluminum), and the most practical way to do that is with a product that sells to a customer t
Car companies do the same thing though, in that they develop and unveil fairly awesome concept cars but only integrate little bits and pieces into their product lines.
After years of watching Top Gear, this.
This is the latest prototype from Volkswagen/General Motors/Toyota, a fantastic car that is light, runs on 2 pounds of petrol a week, has the performance of a Ferrari... and they're not going to make it.
Much like these prototype cars, with prototype software and electronics, I'll believe it when it delivers.
I think it's good that Google tries new things rather than selling the same crap year in, year out like other big players in IT (Ahem, Microsoft, Apple) but it's also good when Google recognises that it's not that good of an idea and kills it unlike other big IT players (looking at you Microsoft).
Gotta hand it to them... (Score:5, Interesting)
Lots of companies fail to understand this, and often those companies grow stagnant trying to push the same or nearly-the-same products on the same few customers until they die off.
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And here at google we're showing a new product that will aid you with everyday tasks... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's shut down in beta.
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Honestly it was a shock when Chrysler released the Plymouth Prowler almost unchanged from its concept-roots. In that instance I think they wanted to test large-scale manufacturing with what were considered fairly exotic materials (lots and lots of aluminum), and the most practical way to do that is with a product that sells to a customer t
Re:Gotta hand it to them... (Score:1)
After years of watching Top Gear, this.
This is the latest prototype from Volkswagen/General Motors/Toyota, a fantastic car that is light, runs on 2 pounds of petrol a week, has the performance of a Ferrari... and they're not going to make it.
Much like these prototype cars, with prototype software and electronics, I'll believe it when it delivers.
I think it's good that Google tries new things rather than selling the same crap year in, year out like other big players in IT (Ahem, Microsoft, Apple) but it's also good when Google recognises that it's not that good of an idea and kills it unlike other big IT players (looking at you Microsoft).