Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January

Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by heavymark on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:38AM (#25466907)

Google creates endless new products and services and will only provide it love and attention if it does well, but it won't do well unless it gets love and attention, thus a seemingly endless cycle of new things that get killed before many even are aware of them. And of course, people are aware of this trend so when Google launches something that does sound interesting many may choose to not use it because they know it will be taking away just as they start to rely on it.

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by DaedPsyker on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:24AM (#25467347)

It is a fragmented company in which anyone looking to stand out creates a whole new product. Once they've moved on the new team has no real interest and another cycle starts with them looking to create a new product to standout.

I can only assume something similar in AWS world since that thing is crammed pack with some new feature that tweaks something.

I cant really fault the employees, companies don't have much culture of loyalty anymore. May as well get in and get what you need before getting out.

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by random5634 on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:42AM (#25467521)

Has AWS ever killed a product? I used simple DB forever before switching to dynamoDb - I didn't remember I was using it - but it kept working

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by DaedPsyker on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:00AM (#25467699)

Oh no I dont think so. I meant more that success seems to be more measured by launching features rather than any other metric.

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by random5634 on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:18PM (#25469349)

Except people's complaint about google is that they kill products. These companies are so large they launch TONS of stuff to avoid being out innovated. Echo took off for example, fire phone flopped, book store did well, AWS took off, I'm sure some other things flopped.

But AWS just does not seem to actually kill their compute products. So my example was simply SimpleDB I'm not sure is even available in console anymore, but it all still worked (a few years ago - they've probably killed it by now I guess).

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by Throwaway1771 on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:33PM (#25474467)

All of their products are cloud open source tools, not SaaS type creations.

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by pjmlp on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:15AM (#25467840)

Here is another good examples,

- Jetpack Composer vs Flutter vs PWAs

Android vs ChromeOS vs Fuchsia

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by reindeerer on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:43AM (#25475618)

Somehow those promos have to get done right ? Couple of OKRs, a few perf cycles, launch, and move on. Also great perf stories for people who took care of sunsets

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