Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January

Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by cheaprentalyeti on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:44AM (#25467540)

It's like their attitude towards legacy software is "Who controls the present controls the past! Who controls the past controls the future!"

Another product down the memory hole.

It's puzzling to me about how their reputation for unreliability in providing services like this never seems to affect their business.

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by joezydeco on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:38AM (#25468061)

Because it's a gnat on the windshield of a 20,000 car freight train moving at high speed.

Advertising rules all, everything else is a cheap experiment to find a way to push out more advertising.

Anything embedded-related out of Google should be treated as a throwaway project by an intern that is already gone. Lots of us don't even look at announcements from them anymore.

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Re:Google Kills Android Things, Its IoT OS, in January by cheaprentalyeti on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:27PM (#25469490)

IBM used to be that freight train too. It used to be "Noone got fired for buying IBM." They made a lot of decisions like this on their way to becoming a consulting company.

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