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Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by refulgentis on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @06:34PM (#40517866)
I worked on Android Wear many, many, years ago. 2016ish. This segment and use case was quietly huge, massive, in at least China, and I bet it still is. (Left google late 23)

I'd love to hear more about this team for cost cutting, it really messed things up*: external, or internal?

* You may imagine I am finding some humor in "my SO is on the google cost cutting team and I don't get why this team exists, why would anyone want a watch for their kid." I am, but I understand where you're coming from, and I'm sure your SO likely would have learned more about the watch market before making similar decisions

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Re:Google releases smart watch for kids by mustang-med on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @07:06PM (#40518158)
My partner's team works across all of Google's products (e.g., Cloud, Geo, not Verily or Waymo) and is part of the green light process for those launches. I don't want to get into more specifics than that, but let's say a product is not growing year-over-year as expected. This is one of the teams involved.
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