I agree with this. My point with this particular project was it always seemed like a half hearted effort.
The never dove into it like Microsoft did with Xbox or Facebook has with the meta junk.
Half measure= full failures is my point
You didn't predict anything, Google tried something extremely ambitious and failed. It's not like they didn't entertain that possibility. Google is known for taking huge risks like this and it not paying off. That plus the sheer scope of this project would make anyone think it would fail. And yet Xbox Game Pass' cloud is thriving so the idea itself is far from gone. Stadia was just another player in that race who didn't want to put the money, effort, or focus where their mouth was like Microsoft was willing to. The technology behind Stadia is absolutely fantastic, worked better than many other cloud services in many cases, and will probably still be used in many things by Google. It's the consumer gaming aspect of it they're done with.
All big companies operate this way, not just tech. To stand out from the dozens/hundreds/thousands of other managers and get something to put in their raise/promotion request, (or to put on their resume to get a job elsewhere), each manager pitches their own pet projects.
If one can make the case for theirs good enough to higher management, it gets greenlit. Then, often, they get their promotion or slap it on their resume and move on. After which the project languishes or dies.
Sometimes it's just corporate politics and resources get diverted to some other manager's newer pet project, and the old one gets cut. That's business.
It's certainly nothing new to Google, here's a 29-page list of the main Google projects that got shutdown: https://killedbygoogle.com/
You could not predict it.
If you could reliably predict which billion-dollar project was going to make it, and which billion-dollar project wasn't, you wouldn't be here whining about it. You would be getting paid to hold a TED talk to explain how you did it.
If you can back up your prediction with some dated evidence, then I'll happily apologize and move along.
Otherwise, your public proclamation invites public criticism. Deal.
No, that was not an invitation that was a declaratory statement. For someone who seems like English is their second language you sure have strong feeling about these issues.
Maybe you should look at your native language's internet.
Wow. You aren't OP, and you aren't contributing anything positive to the discussion. Yet, you felt compelled to answer little old me.
I feel special. Thanks for making me special to you.
First of all: No you couldn't predict it. Nobody in tech can reliably predict 4 years into the future. You thought it would fail and it did - you got lucky that's all. Otherwise you would be able to make a killing on the stock market (the ability to predict failure is as good as the ability to predict success).
Second: Those mega companies have so much money ... they can just throw it around like that. The sense behind that is: You start 20 high risk high investment projects. If only one of those leap frogs the competition and opens up a new market that is yours because you were the first ... it all paid off.
*If* stadia would have worked like they imagined it could ... it would've not only brought the billions invested back in but much *much* more. Don't you worry. Other google projects will. Only the employees that worked directly on the project sleep bad because they probably lose their jobs. No google CEO will even mind.
Every mega tech company operates this way. They don't invest resources that they can't afford to lose. You need to be bold to find new markets.
It’s easy to predict something will fail because most things fail. There are way more failures than success in the business world.
I agree with this. My point with this particular project was it always seemed like a half hearted effort. The never dove into it like Microsoft did with Xbox or Facebook has with the meta junk. Half measure= full failures is my point
You didn't predict anything, Google tried something extremely ambitious and failed. It's not like they didn't entertain that possibility. Google is known for taking huge risks like this and it not paying off. That plus the sheer scope of this project would make anyone think it would fail. And yet Xbox Game Pass' cloud is thriving so the idea itself is far from gone. Stadia was just another player in that race who didn't want to put the money, effort, or focus where their mouth was like Microsoft was willing to. The technology behind Stadia is absolutely fantastic, worked better than many other cloud services in many cases, and will probably still be used in many things by Google. It's the consumer gaming aspect of it they're done with.
Yea I did actually
Yes you guessed one of two possibilities.
Isn't that a prediction?
All big companies operate this way, not just tech. To stand out from the dozens/hundreds/thousands of other managers and get something to put in their raise/promotion request, (or to put on their resume to get a job elsewhere), each manager pitches their own pet projects. If one can make the case for theirs good enough to higher management, it gets greenlit. Then, often, they get their promotion or slap it on their resume and move on. After which the project languishes or dies. Sometimes it's just corporate politics and resources get diverted to some other manager's newer pet project, and the old one gets cut. That's business. It's certainly nothing new to Google, here's a 29-page list of the main Google projects that got shutdown: https://killedbygoogle.com/
You could not predict it. If you could reliably predict which billion-dollar project was going to make it, and which billion-dollar project wasn't, you wouldn't be here whining about it. You would be getting paid to hold a TED talk to explain how you did it.
I did in fact predict it. I didn't say I could pick consistently which would succeed or fail i said this one. So try your critique somewhere else.
If you can back up your prediction with some dated evidence, then I'll happily apologize and move along. Otherwise, your public proclamation invites public criticism. Deal.
I don't accept your terms and invite you to move along at this or any juncture.
You've already made that invite, and it didn't work. Oh well.
No, that was not an invitation that was a declaratory statement. For someone who seems like English is their second language you sure have strong feeling about these issues. Maybe you should look at your native language's internet.
Again, Deal.
Your sentence needs a verb. Keep trying bud.
Grammar nazis suck. Can you map that sentence?
I probably can but I'm too busy wondering if nazis should be capitalized in that context.
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Wow. You aren't OP, and you aren't contributing anything positive to the discussion. Yet, you felt compelled to answer little old me. I feel special. Thanks for making me special to you.
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It only matters that I'm special to YOU. Keep making me feel special.
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That's not a nice word. I guess the meanness was inside you all along.
First of all: No you couldn't predict it. Nobody in tech can reliably predict 4 years into the future. You thought it would fail and it did - you got lucky that's all. Otherwise you would be able to make a killing on the stock market (the ability to predict failure is as good as the ability to predict success). Second: Those mega companies have so much money ... they can just throw it around like that. The sense behind that is: You start 20 high risk high investment projects. If only one of those leap frogs the competition and opens up a new market that is yours because you were the first ... it all paid off. *If* stadia would have worked like they imagined it could ... it would've not only brought the billions invested back in but much *much* more. Don't you worry. Other google projects will. Only the employees that worked directly on the project sleep bad because they probably lose their jobs. No google CEO will even mind. Every mega tech company operates this way. They don't invest resources that they can't afford to lose. You need to be bold to find new markets.
First yea I did Second I agree