...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
Honda doesn't go "Oh by the way, you can't use your Civic anymore, since we can't be bothered to support it, but to show how nice we are, we'll provide a toolkit to help you port goods from your trunk to another company's vehicle".
Honda doesn't go "Oh by the way, you can't use your Civic anymore, since we can't be bothered to support it, but to show how nice we are, we'll provide a toolkit to help you port goods from your trunk to another company's vehicle".
If you'd be given a Honda Civic for free, would you mind if in 2 years from now they'll tell you you can use it anymore because is not supported?
Yes. Regardless of whether you think it's right or wrong, it's pretty annoying as a user if something you grow dependent on over a few years suddenly disappears.
Honda doesn't go "Oh by the way, you can't use your Civic anymore, since we can't be bothered to support it, but to show how nice we are, we'll provide a toolkit to help you port goods from your trunk to another company's vehicle".
Yes, Honda continued to support my Integra well past it's production life (production ceased in 2007, a recall notice to get the brake booster inspected came in 2013)... But no-one bought an Integra in beta. By the time the first one rolled out of the factory they were production cars.
You also dont pay $40,000 to Google for a beta service.
Even Honda wont go far out of it's way to support a EK/EJ Civic or DC5 Integra as they've been out of production for years... and you'll be expected to pay Honda for
Honda doesn't go "Oh by the way, you can't use your Civic anymore, since we can't be bothered to support it, but to show how nice we are, we'll provide a toolkit to help you port goods from your trunk to another company's vehicle".
Actually Honda has done this with prior electric vehicles and are doing it with the new Honda Fit EVs that is currently available. They are lease only so they don't have to bother with support later.
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
Google is too big too fail; one of these days they'll come out and
proclaim they "like the government", and "do no evil" should be
read as "...and please same".
Typical slashdot to be doing a goog slashvertisement when nytimes announced the biggest piece of YRO news since Snowden: Supreme Court bans warrant less cellphone searches 9-0! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06... [nytimes.com]
I mean, our office gets one ticket to Google I/O and it's usually fought over to get the stuff that's given away more than the keynotes or anything else.
Last year it was a Chromebook Pixel (much to the disappointment to the person who went), the year before that it was a Gnex, Nexus 7 and Nexus Q, etc.
Yes, cardboard. But also a Google smartwatch, tomorrow (LG or Samsung), and another one in the summer (Motorola), when it's available.
It's getting to be slightly funny, hard to parody, how many Android / Chrome devices one could ("normally" -- that is, without doubling up, exactly) carry around, without seeming too crazy (note: I use a few of these, but have never tried one of the watches, have only tried the Glass on at least year's IO):
I always thought Google was a one step forward two back kind of company. They dabble in this and that and your never sure what will stick and what won't. Many like myself don't get to cozy with Google for just such a reason. I don't care to commit to a application, a device or a ecosystem like Google's for fear of something being dropped or changed. Its like Chromebook's, people buy them on price and see if it fits after the fact. So many whine about Google Doc's but how many actually do homework before divi
I disagree that the hobbyist crap is plaguing Google. I think it's a large part of what keeps them innovative. A lot of it doesn't leave beta but the ideas and core concepts get recycled into other products in their ecosystem.
One step forward and two steps back? I can't think of a google service that was worse than the competition. Google + is about the closest thing, and that's only because no one actually switched from facebook.
It is annoying when they stop offering services, but do you actually lose anything when they do that? Take google reader: I paid nothing for it. When it was being shut down, google made the transition simple.
You bring up android and chromebooks. That's one giant step forward in my book (a
It is annoying when they stop offering services, but do you actually lose anything when they do that? Take google reader: I paid nothing for it. When it was being shut down, google made the transition simple.
Google more or less killed the market for news readers by offering theirs for free. Such that when they lost interest and dropped it, there wasn't much left to migrate to.
But yes, at least you didn't pay for Google Reader. Pity the fools that paid for Google Glass. In a boring 3 hour keynote, there was not a mention of Google Glass, not a single presenter who wore one. When Google finally pull the plug on that turkey, that's going to be a lot of people who feel cheated out of $1500.
" 1.1 billion active users (20 billion texts, 93M selfless of which he says "about 31 M "are not faces."); phones checked 100B times/day."
How...how does he know all that?
The texting/forward-facing camera activations maybe, but the "Are not faces" part? Is google running facial recognition (That is, just looking for faces) on every shot you take? where is this data coming from?
Probably facial recognition on every image that's uploaded to Google+ (which I believe is done by default on new Androids - I don't know beause I don't use Google+), just like Facebook does.
Google+ Photos has facial recognition (Find My Face). So if google runs their facial recognition software on all photos where the user has set up their phone to automatically upload photos to Google+ and also agreed to the Find My Face feature (or some similar agreement that people generally just click through), that would give them a pretty good approximation of these numbers.
Good question, but not answered during the keynote at least; not sure if the number was tongue in cheek or serious -- he just said that's what "the team" tells him.
I/O, the company's annual developer tracking^wdevelopers conference,
I use vi, but I assume the control w is emacs to delete a word.
Developer developers conference ?
Holy abuse of parenthesis ! ... acquisitions and projects (like the recent purchase of Nest, which itself promptly bought Dropcam, the ever smarter fleet of self-driving cars, the growing number of Glass devices in the wild, and the announcement of a 3D scanning high end tablet quite unlike the Nexus line of tablets and phones),...
I did not suggest a mistake. I suggested it was a typo by some being too cute to get the message correct.
I think it was an attempt to do as you say, but the expression as typed does not parse correctly.
Google developer tracking^w conference is one way to express the idea.
Google developer tracking ^w^wdevelopers conference is another.
Looking at pics and descriptions in a couple live blogs, and based on that i've got to say that i didn't like live tiles when Microsoft created them and i don't like them any better now the Google seems to be copying them.
Also, reportedly "Each of your active Chrome tabs shows up individually in the app switcher". If that's true i so do not want. I've got over 90 tabs open in chrome on my phone right now, and about an equal number in Firefox. I do _not_ want to have to sort through all that just to switch apps.
It's painful to see all these incredibly complex things, but not see the addition of basic undo support for native text editing widgets in Android.
Please Google please, make all native gui elements/widgets support undo. Pretty much every other platform/toolkit already does! (See Qt as one example, or perhaps iOS.) Get the basics right first, then go for the complicated stuff.
The issue tracker has this mentioned several times and it's just not getting the priority and attention it should be getting. https://code.google.com/p/andr... [google.com]
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.
Re:Gotta hand it to them... (Score:5, Insightful)
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:4, Funny)
Honda doesn't go "Oh by the way, you can't use your Civic anymore, since we can't be bothered to support it, but to show how nice we are, we'll provide a toolkit to help you port goods from your trunk to another company's vehicle".
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Honda doesn't go "Oh by the way, you can't use your Civic anymore, since we can't be bothered to support it, but to show how nice we are, we'll provide a toolkit to help you port goods from your trunk to another company's vehicle".
If you'd be given a Honda Civic for free, would you mind if in 2 years from now they'll tell you you can use it anymore because is not supported?
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"free"
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Honda doesn't go "Oh by the way, you can't use your Civic anymore, since we can't be bothered to support it, but to show how nice we are, we'll provide a toolkit to help you port goods from your trunk to another company's vehicle".
Yes, Honda continued to support my Integra well past it's production life (production ceased in 2007, a recall notice to get the brake booster inspected came in 2013)... But no-one bought an Integra in beta. By the time the first one rolled out of the factory they were production cars. You also dont pay $40,000 to Google for a beta service.
Even Honda wont go far out of it's way to support a EK/EJ Civic or DC5 Integra as they've been out of production for years... and you'll be expected to pay Honda for
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Honda doesn't go "Oh by the way, you can't use your Civic anymore, since we can't be bothered to support it, but to show how nice we are, we'll provide a toolkit to help you port goods from your trunk to another company's vehicle".
Actually Honda has done this with prior electric vehicles and are doing it with the new Honda Fit EVs that is currently available. They are lease only so they don't have to bother with support later.
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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
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Google is too big too fail; one of these days they'll come out and
proclaim they "like the government", and "do no evil" should be
read as "...and please same".
Oh, my GOD! (Score:-1)
I just pissed myself with excitement.
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Let's see (Score:-1)
How you're gonna get Scroogled this year, LOL.
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What do attendees get this year? (Score:2)
I mean, our office gets one ticket to Google I/O and it's usually fought over to get the stuff that's given away more than the keynotes or anything else.
Last year it was a Chromebook Pixel (much to the disappointment to the person who went), the year before that it was a Gnex, Nexus 7 and Nexus Q, etc.
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- a piece of cardboard
- LG G watch or Samsung gear live
- Motorola 360
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Yes, cardboard. But also a Google smartwatch, tomorrow (LG or Samsung), and another one in the summer (Motorola), when it's available.
It's getting to be slightly funny, hard to parody, how many Android / Chrome devices one could ("normally" -- that is, without doubling up, exactly) carry around, without seeming too crazy (note: I use a few of these, but have never tried one of the watches, have only tried the Glass on at least year's IO):
- watch
- Glass
- phone
- tablet
- Chromebook
I bet a fair number of the at
One step forward two back company (Score:2, Insightful)
I always thought Google was a one step forward two back kind of company. They dabble in this and that and your never sure what will stick and what won't.
Many like myself don't get to cozy with Google for just such a reason. I don't care to commit to a application, a device or a ecosystem like Google's for fear of something being dropped or changed. Its like Chromebook's, people buy them on price and see if it fits after the fact. So many whine about Google Doc's but how many actually do homework before divi
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It is annoying when they stop offering services, but do you actually lose anything when they do that? Take google reader: I paid nothing for it. When it was being shut down, google made the transition simple.
You bring up android and chromebooks. That's one giant step forward in my book (a
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It is annoying when they stop offering services, but do you actually lose anything when they do that? Take google reader: I paid nothing for it. When it was being shut down, google made the transition simple.
Google more or less killed the market for news readers by offering theirs for free. Such that when they lost interest and dropped it, there wasn't much left to migrate to.
But yes, at least you didn't pay for Google Reader. Pity the fools that paid for Google Glass. In a boring 3 hour keynote, there was not a mention of Google Glass, not a single presenter who wore one. When Google finally pull the plug on that turkey, that's going to be a lot of people who feel cheated out of $1500.
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your [sic] never sure what will stick and what won't.
One thing you can be sure of: people will make this complaint Ad nauseam.
No (Score:2)
I still don't want to display my real name on YouTube.
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Or have to re-login constantly and tell it to switch profiles.
metrics? (Score:0)
" 1.1 billion active users (20 billion texts, 93M selfless of which he says "about 31 M "are not faces."); phones checked 100B times/day."
How...how does he know all that?
The texting/forward-facing camera activations maybe, but the "Are not faces" part? Is google running facial recognition (That is, just looking for faces) on every shot you take? where is this data coming from?
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Probably facial recognition on every image that's uploaded to Google+ (which I believe is done by default on new Androids - I don't know beause I don't use Google+), just like Facebook does.
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Google+ Photos has facial recognition (Find My Face). So if google runs their facial recognition software on all photos where the user has set up their phone to automatically upload photos to Google+ and also agreed to the Find My Face feature (or some similar agreement that people generally just click through), that would give them a pretty good approximation of these numbers.
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Good question, but not answered during the keynote at least; not sure if the number was tongue in cheek or serious -- he just said that's what "the team" tells him.
You dropped this: ) (Score:-1)
Glad to help.
Re: You dropped this: ) (Score:-1)
Missing more than one ....
The editors here are a complete joke.
/. Should pay an editor (Score:0, Troll)
I use vi, but I assume the control w is emacs to delete a word.
Developer developers conference ?
Is that really what the op wanted ?
Re: /. Should pay an editor (Score:1)
/. Should pay an editor (Score:3, Informative)
It was a slight against the tracking of people by Google, not a mistake as you suggest.
Re: /. Should pay an editor (Score:2)
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yeah...sure..ok..whatever... (Score:1)
Ara. A.R.A.
Please show us more nerd pr0n of sexy, sexy pebbles sliding out of the exoskeleton. Then tell us it is coming out in October.
Initial impressions (Score:4, Insightful)
Also, reportedly "Each of your active Chrome tabs shows up individually in the app switcher". If that's true i so do not want. I've got over 90 tabs open in chrome on my phone right now, and about an equal number in Firefox. I do _not_ want to have to sort through all that just to switch apps.
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I'm not sure about showing your active Chrome tabs individually in the app switcher, either. However I'm pretty sure your case is an exception.
mod 0p (Score:-1)
Undo support yet? (Score:4, Interesting)
It's painful to see all these incredibly complex things, but not see the addition of basic undo support for native text editing widgets in Android.
Please Google please, make all native gui elements/widgets support undo. Pretty much every other platform/toolkit already does! (See Qt as one example, or perhaps iOS.) Get the basics right first, then go for the complicated stuff.
The issue tracker has this mentioned several times and it's just not getting the priority and attention it should be getting.
https://code.google.com/p/andr... [google.com]
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Surely this can't be true. did you try shaking? Shake to undo has been in iOS since 2.0...
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Make that iOS 3.0.
Want more chromecast (Score:2)
WHAT IF ... GOD WAS ONE OF US ?? (Score:-1)
Just a slob like one of us !!
Don't hold your breath.
this is my website (Score:1)