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Re:Sonos CEO says the old app can't be rereleased on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @04:02AM (#41307930)
https://music-assistant.io/ is also another option
Re:Sonos CEO says the old app can't be rereleased on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @04:01AM (#41307926)
yeah Sonos won for a bit there Google keep at it and overturn it. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/10/23910694/sonos-google-pa...

but i think the damage has been done at Google the resource move to other projects while the legal cases got worked out.

one time Google was going to release Google surround sound that works with Google TV but this courtcase delay it all.

Re:Sonos CEO says the old app can't be rereleased on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @03:57AM (#41307891)
https://music-assistant.io/ Music Assistant is a music library manager for your offline and online music sources which can easily stream your favourite music to a wide range of supported players and be combined with the power of Home Assistant!
Microsoft acquisition of Bethesda was the nail for stadia as they supported Stadia from the beginning.
Re:Most people don’t finish online job applications on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @10:33AM (#33344326)
love it in 2022 we still cant agree on some common form standards for this type of data
Re:Localisation is too hard for Gmail on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @10:31AM (#24848237)
lot of things are to Hard for Google, like kids being able to play music on google made devices via family link on YouTube Music
Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:54PM (#22940949)
can they fix it so kids Family link account work without a dam phone number ffs Google Family link is a joke sometimes
Re:Google's ambitious push into gaming is floundering on Sunday March 01, 2020 @06:43PM (#22460239)
Google used to use the term beta a lot in there past. I don't understand why Stadia wasn't tag with the beta or early access this would of put the problems and the media more at ease until the product was stable
Re:Australia’s 4G network is faster than 5G: study on Monday September 16, 2019 @08:17PM (#20989884)
HFC Still better than FTTN (VDSL) with most of the HFC network supporting DOCSIS 3.1 supporting speeds of 10Gbit
could be base on the limits imposed by the video codec that they use to stream to the HMD this page https://www.mathieupassenaud.fr/build-your-own-android-auto-... talks about H264 but they also need USB data also for the touch controls
Media and Message apps fit in a framework that google has provided this allows them to update the android auto UI with no changes for any of these apps.

they haven't done this for map apps yet but Waze is now supported. but this took a long time.

it could be possible there building the framework for maps just there not ready for 3rd party's to access it

the internet is quick to judge but you have to walk before you run. this is a system that will run on millions of cars and in the future possibly billions.

with Android Automotive OS its going to be part of the car so getting this correct is a big deal you want it supportable well into the future.

Re:Microsoft loses control over Windows Tiles on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:33AM (#19680539)
windows 10 start menu is a complete joke it never finds anything within the apps area of my start menu
Re:Life inside MPEG on Monday November 19, 2018 @11:13PM (#18491747)
Re:A Costly, Deadly Obsession with Coal on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:55PM (#17260631)
I found this video pretty good asking the question about baseload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-5VkFo-fsg
sometimes question are ask is web code old, insecurity? does it scale? power profile, can we support it?

look at flash was massive but it was insecure and had to be replaced.

from my understanding talk had to be change due to mobile network usage and battery drain.

sometime it isn't black and white what kills a app and most of these products are free so it isn't like google owes you anything.

i think they could communicate this better with people be more open on why a product is put to rest or replaced

Plus code isn't new Google talk about them before as there where developed at Google's Zürich engineering office and release in 2014

there also called open location code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code

Re:Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @10:47PM (#16534112)
are they working with them as in building the system or are they just helping them with understanding the technology like TensorFlow APIs.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices on Saturday March 03, 2018 @06:13PM (#16512272)
because of this Google Play and Play Services cannot be install on the device Google Casting depends on this.
Re:Google Hangouts Chat on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:09PM (#16488852)
too many people are thinking that a one fit solution can work for everyone but Google are massive and they can afford to have many product to suit their customers needs, Microsoft also has this with Skype, Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams.

Skype will always be consumer focus and it has built in video.

Skype for Business a old product bad UI that was called Lync is being replace with Teams.

Teams Fantastic product but i don't ever see consumers using it business its great check it out if you have 365.

and don't forget microsoft has there old system call messenger that they merge into Skype.

now we look at Google also all these new chat systems are build on WebRTC, HTTP2.0 & QUIC all built to be fast.

anything in G Suite has a requirements of Google Account, high SLA, standards compliance & data retention

Hangout Meet - be a easy video chat app Hangout Chat - be a group/teams chat app

both Allo and Duo work without any account creation all you need is a SMS verify and it works off a mobile number for area of the world that don't bother with creating accounts or maybe some beginnings of supporting a imessage type service so this would be a big change to Google whole systems and thinking around how that layers in with other services.

but there now gearing up to add the Google account layer with the latest teardown its coming and soon as the new smart display depend on duo having google account

Allo - be a modern consumer chat app Duo - be a modern video app Hangouts - be legacy

now this is what i would do to merge the system once they add Google Account support then i can see they will be able to build a layer to import legacy hangout chats into the allo system and in the end maybe even swapping out the hangout backed with allo's two different views/UI on a centralize base. this would keep the internet happy and most people would be no wiser but then allo people can talk with hangout people and the two apps would be 100% feature the same just a bit of paint difference.

Re:Amazon to acquire video doorbell maker Ring on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:29PM (#16480680)
i guess no google assistant support now for ring products
Re:How do you move out of a smarthome? on Thursday November 30, 2017 @10:26AM (#15816427)
Google's Weave has ideas of ownership & security on a devices unsure where its. we could see a day where a house of infrastructure devices gets handed over as part of the sale with this type of system.

Andrew Warren video talking about these features https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thUJARumXWE

Re:Australia Mourns the End of Its Car Manufacturing Industry on Saturday October 21, 2017 @10:08AM (#15521885)
Holden (GM) killed themself by building cars no one wanted anymore as the Australian iconic car has 6-cylinder engines and some maybe 8 cylinder.

Australian government couldn't subsidise cars that where losing sales year on year to smaller cheaper to run cars.

GM just wanted the handouts to keep it running when that dry up they pull the pin

John Cadogan is a bloke that called the end of the Australian Car Manufacturing many years ago and has a great video on why it died here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uFYW5tMoeg

Re:Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:00AM (#15138660)
but wouldn't treble allow for there custom Android to be updated across there fleet of devices where currently each product has to get its custom build with drivers etc.
Re:SoftBank Agrees to Buy Boston Dynamics From Alphabet on Thursday June 08, 2017 @11:03PM (#14518899)
yes its a great loss for Google.

but they have plenty of things going on this is just another distraction from there core product groups.

Re:Jamboard is now available on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @11:05PM (#14407321)
i think the product support will be ok as it's run via the Cloud Business side of the company, $50 a month will assure this. also Cisco normally has some kinda maintenance plan on there products. unsure about the Surface Hub

i can also see them being pack in as sweeteners like sign up for company/school wide G-Suite here is a few bonus jamboards

software is chromeOS?.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15680250/google-jamboard-...

Re:Google I/O 2017 on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:30PM (#14360674)
well you're in luck Google Assistant is now on the iPhone
Re:HP Labs developed a new rewritable printing technology on Sunday April 16, 2017 @05:29AM (#14125067)
seems like its similar to NFC-WISP from Alanson Sample http://www.alansonsample.com/research/NFC-WISP.html
Re:Not OK, Google on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @12:23PM (#12645273)
just having a mobile device you're being tracked in Australia now the Government now also has access to this data from the network providers the only way to be free is to not carry these devices
Re:The Internet of Poorly Working Things on Monday August 22, 2016 @01:05PM (#12337717)
waiting to see what comes out of Google IoT project like Brillo, Weave it's been kicking around a Google for a while now seems long before the 2015 I/O announcement. maybe Fuchsia has something to do with it who knows.
Re:Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @01:17PM (#12037990)
you realized the reason for these things not supported in Google for Work is due to them being new or not work focused

Google for Work has to be stable over features all the items you have listed are pretty new all the family stuff is extremely new and still isn't complete it started with hack into google Music but we are now finally seeing it move into google main accounts as of today you can see it here

https://myaccount.google.com/preferences?utm_source=Google&u...

but you still can't add users from here

Google Fi isn't a for business product is more of an experiment on how to build a better MVNO and also to improve Android i expect in a few years they will sunset it

Google spaces is like two months old.

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