That's actually one of the reasons why Google might win.
Nvidia is tied down to support previous and existing customers while Google can still easily shift things around without needing to worry too much about external dependencies.
At the time Google+ was started and shortly after, leadership (larry page at that time) focused the attention of the company on it. There was a social bonus (that you'd get if you integrated your product), there were large changes to existing systems to support Google+, and the company made it quite clear it thought that social was the direction to go and that Google+ was going to be an enormous product.
I and a lot of other googlers were really confused by all of this because at the time we were advocating that Google put more effort into its nascent cloud business (often to get the reply "but we already have appengine" or "cloud isn't as profitable as ads") and that social, while getting a lot of attention, wasn't really a good business for google to be in (with a few exceptions like Orkut and Youtube, Google's attempts at social have been pretty uninspired).
There were even books written at the time that said Google looked lazy and slow and that Meta was going to eat their lunch. But shortly after Google+ tanked, Google really began to focus on Cloud (in a way that pissed off a lot of Googlers in the same way Google+ did- by taking resources and attention from other projects). Now, Meta looks like its going to have a challenging future while Google is on to achieving what Larry Page originally intended: a reliable revenue stream that is reinvested into development of true AI.
In my recollection, what killed g+ was forcing your YouTube account to become your g+ account, with your public name attached to the trashpit YouTube comments used to be. Everybody protested using g+, but the "Google account for everything" stuck around anyways.
Chromecast is "gone" because it bridged the gap of dumb tvs needing streaming capabilities. Now almost every tv sold has some kind of smart feature or can stream natively so Chromecast aren't needed.
chromecast is alive, podcast, music were migrated to youtube app, url shortener is not core business and just side hustle for google. Not familiar with g suite legacy.
Wait until Apple's ChromeBook competitor shows up to eat their lunch just like switching to another proprietary stack with no dev ecosystem will die out. Sure they'll go after big ticket accounts, also take a guess at what else gets sanctioned next.
Someone please make a Moto Razr form factor and snap bluetooth device so I can keep my big and costly device in my bag and use it only when I actually need to.
Apart from being absolutely unusable on any actually used Android phone, very weird that the author didnt bother to have any write up of how they actually did this, not really sure if its a rip off of the CAPods repo, will have to confirm that later
>Just like AGI he was supposedly brought on board for but…..checks notes. Nothing.
His AGI work was entirely his own? As in he literally stepped down from a high level corporate role where he was responsible for Oculus (3D games/applications) to do this in his own time. Similar to his work on Armadillo Aerospace.
There are certain figures who are very experienced and knowledgeable in certain domains, so when they speak up about a topic it's usually worth listening to them. That doesn't mean they're always going to be correct, and they shouldn't be worshiped as superhuman entities, but it's almost always a bad idea to completely ignore them.
This stuff happens all the time for a tech blog they sure don’t know the industry.
Google acquired Flutter, a desktop app which let you control your music playback with hand gestures, only to reuse the branding for the yet another ghost town framework of theirs.
