• Red_October@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I remember reading somewhere that employees are heavily incentivized to create new things. Invent something, develop something, just get something NEW out, but there are no incentives to support existing projects. Once a feature or product is complete and released, nobody wants to stay on the team to support it, and there’s no perceived value in even continuing to produce it, much less evolve it.

      That’s why Google is always churning out new stuff, and then letting it languish and die. There’s no internal money for support, only invention.

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        3 months ago

        They really need to just lease these innovations out to new teams that’ll maintain them, or at least just open source it all.

        They’d probably make a killing if they kept just making stuff then selling the infrastructure to other companies once they’re bored.

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        3 months ago

        That sounds like south Asian mentality, I mean I’m not saying it’s because of south Asians, but just that it’s a very similar thought process, most observable when it comes to buying new houses, people in India/pakistan where people won’t mind paying large sums of money upfront for fancy condominiums, but will not pay high maintenance fees to keep the fancy facilities going.

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      Its not a killing, its a rebranding. Its just being called a killed device because its Google.

      Its like claiming Apple is killing iPhones every few years.

      “Apple killing iPhone S” in 2018.

      “Apple killing iPhone C” in 2014, another for the Apple graveyard.

      “Apple killing iPhone Plus” in 2018, another for the Apple graveyard.

      “Apple killing the iPhone SE” in 2023, another for the Apple graveyard.

      “Apple killing iPhone Mini” in 2022, another for the Apple graveyard.

      This doesn’t even include other devices like the G models, Unibodies, and Retina iMac models. Just look at that Apple graveyard growing and so quickly…

      This could also be claimed on things from most other large, older tech companies. But the reality is, a rebranding is not a killing of the device. This is just clickbait.

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          3 months ago

          And these are the same line of devices in the article, just with different names. Exactly the same thing, only difference is who the makers are.

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    3 months ago

    I really hate this fucking trend of them putting dedicated Netflix and Hulu buttons on remote controls. I refuse to buy anything with this “Feature”. You absolutely cannot avoid advertising on every…single…fucking…thing.

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    They didn’t really kill it off. They just updated it and changed the name.

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      3 months ago

      And made it less affordable and less portable. Unfortunate, at least I still have the HD model for when I travel.

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      3 months ago

      I wouldn’t see how the new model is the updated version of the Chromecast, I don’t see myself carrying that thing to every hotel I stay in.

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      3 months ago

      It will lol. Just got an apple tv for my new tv instead of Google cause on my Google TV devices I have shit like Burger King ads.

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    3 months ago

    Sure, my tv has built in apps for all that shit, but they’re slow as frozen molasses. It would take me minutes to scroll to the bottom of my YouTube subscriptions, and there were only 90 of them.

    My in-laws internal player (on a brand new tbv) kept having codec errors (digital static) in hd broadcasts, so we bought them one too.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    why is anyone surprised considering they already replaced it with the superior google tv with chromecast like years ago