Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye...
by epolanski on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:09PM
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I think you underestimate stadia. I don 't use it myself, but know a lot of people playing on it and highly recommending the experience.
Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye...
by kaba0 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @06:16AM
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Isn’t that already discontinued?
Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye...
by Qub3d on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:59PM
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Nope. I actually signed up for the free trial while I was out of state in December so I could quickly do a couple things and only bring along my MacBook (complete a few daily objectives on my MMO of choice).
I don't think streaming games will ever quite work out for something like a first person shooter or competitive scenes, but I was really impressed otherwise. I didn't notice input lag nearly as much as I thought I would.
Pixel has always lived in the shadow of Samsung and probably always will. Android hardware profit margins are slim. Chromebooks are doing well in education at the moment but they can’t break out of the low end of the market and each of their attempts to do so have failed. Devices overall are a mixed bag in my opinion.
Stadia isn’t very good, costs too much, has a mediocre game library, and given the massive development cost definitely hasn’t paid off and probably never will.
Nest is a business they acquired that’s continued to grow. This is definitely a win, but it’s a small one, and it definitely doesn’t pay for all the unsuccessful products they’ve built.
Custom SoCs are potentially promising, but it’s a specific niche and others are doing the same so that’s kind of a “wait and see” for me.
Their paid services don’t seem popular at all with the exception of gsuite & YouTube premium (which people mainly buy to get around annoyances like not being able to listen to audio from a video with your phone locked or switch apps on mobile while leaving a video running)
I expect a large chunk of that “other” revenue you mentioned is also Google Cloud which despite how hard they’ve tried is far behind it’s competitors and hasn’t seen nearly the growth that Azure in particular has had.