Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by pjmlp on Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:27PM
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As someone that has spend a big time of my development projects on Microsoft platforms, I tend to think all those issues are side effects from internal politics.
Just when team X is about to score, they end up loosing management support, thus the product gets canned while others pick up the idea.
Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:39PM
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I agree. And the problem is, each time this cycle happens, the company burns any consumer goodwill it's worked to achieve. (You see the same frantic, uncommitted stance to products with new Google initiatives these days.)
It's easy to see and say "this product is costing us money and isn't popular enough", and fail to realize "killing products over and over means people aren't going to try our next one". Long term stable support of a product line, even if it's not a top seller, is what's going to earn you consumer trust.
Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by vitorgrs on Friday January 18, 2019 @01:24AM
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Foldable is still alive in Microsoft.
Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by ocdtrekkie on Friday January 18, 2019 @02:29AM
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Sure, but they missed their window to launch a new product category, and will be trying to compete with Android and its giant app library on day one.
Re:Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40M
by pjmlp on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:31AM
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Android is not having that much luck on anything besides phones, tablets are being slowly eaten by detachable laptops with good old Windows on them.
At least that is what I observe from the local dealers around my me.
So from that point of view Win32/UWP is also a giant app library.
Microsoft also seemed to be leading the foldable device trend both with the Courier several years ago, and more recently, the Surface Andromeda, but then inexplicably decided to kill them both and wait for their competitors to beat them to it. I have a Windows phone that runs Android apps as well as Android does but Microsoft decided to scrap the feature. Watching Microsoft both come up with the best solution to a problem and then brutally murder it before anyone can use it is probably the most painful thing to watch in tech.