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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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