Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff

Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by taeric on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:32PM (#34468142)

This seems endemic to all parental things in tech. I swear most of them seem to be done with no user acceptance testing at all. Worse, I think most of them are built by people that don't use them.

The general attitude seems to be that they can take the "build it, and they will come" approach. Who cares what people want, when you can build what you want them to want?

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by irrational on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:42PM (#34468261)

I do wonder if they are being built by developers who have never had kids of their own.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by taeric on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:30PM (#34468808)

Had this complaint with kindle's time limits. They have it by "weekend" and "weeknight." But... as a parent, I want "school night" versus "non-school night." And those aren't the same thing at all.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by jchw on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:44PM (#34468284)

After that whole debacle with YouTube and the COPPA, I sort-of wonder if YouTube Kids has to do with anything anyone actually wants, or if it's pretty much just there to serve some kind of purpose for their optics.

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Re:Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted ... by taeric on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:28PM (#34468791)

My take is that it is what they want. That is, they want parents to put in a fair bit of effort to get their kids engaged.

This is backwards from what parents typically want, as managing another stream of content is obnoxious.

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