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3 years ago Google killed off Android Things[1] and told everyone to migrate to IoT Core. Now IoT Core is dead. But don't worry about all that, just connect with your Google Cloud account manager! They'll tell you exactly which Google platform you should migrate to next.

[1]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/02/an-update-...

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This reminds me of a David Letterman skit where Letterman was working at a Taco Bell drivethru. He told a customer that they were out of several drinks in a row and then said something like “ma’am, I need to know what drink you want so that I can tell you we’re out of it” in response to the lady asking what drinks did they have.

Reminds me of an old Soviet joke. A guy walks into a shop, sees how empty it is and asks "You're out of beef?" The clerk explains, "No, the butcher's shop across the street is the one who is out of beef. At this store, we specialize in being out of fish".

Like the good old Monty Python cheese shop :) https://youtu.be/Hz1JWzyvv8A

Yeah IoT definitely seems to be following Google's messaging strategy - if the platform isn't a runaway success, delete it and start again. Maybe people will love the new platform!

Are they too spoiled by the early days of the internet when that would happen regularly because they were simply first? Does it ever still happen?

"spoiled" in the sense of having gone bad, maybe. It does appear this is a deeply ingrained cultural assumption they aren't getting rid of (no clue if they try). The usual meme is of course "nobody gets promoted for maintaining a not-so-successful service"...

Why I only target Android with the NDK, or Web apps?

Because while they are natively supported on the device, they aren't tied to Android's future.

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