And thus ensure in another 2 years, another person will be promoted to the Google global payments VP, and another product manager will think he's god's gift to solving the payments problem, and will have another product and rebranding cycle.

Mark your calendars.

Happened to my android google tv from Sony, completely made it unusable , even YouTube app is not working. When Logitech did something similar everybody gone crazy about it. Google seems to be getting away with this kind of behavior every time

I had this TV and just bought a new one for Christmas. To be fair, the TV was released in mid-2010, the YouTube app was supported for over 7 years. Many other apps on the TV still worked when I got rid of it a month ago. There's a lot of valid complaints about smart TV software not being updated, but I think this is a stretch.

It wouldn't be much of a stretch to follow that line of reasoning and propose that people should never buy smart products ever again. They should instead rent them. maybe that's what Google wants also.

7 years isn't that old for a TV. I'm happy that I've bought a dumb TV, and then have a chromecast which is a small and cheap device that I can easily upgrade.

Looks like the average is about 5 years. It still fell back to being a dumb TV just fine, I had a chromecast and an Apple TV hooked up.

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/playout/2014/07/npd-displaysearch...