Google Reveals ‘First Laptops Built for Cloud Gaming’ Just After Killing Stadia
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When Microsoft is the least evil of the three, I think the game is pretty much lost, or at least it feels that way.
Remember Google+? "This is the future", they said. Now it's deleted. Over and over for so many new products. What a huge waste of time.
As a consumer, Google has become an obviously poor investment of my time.
Not sure what I'll do if/when they shutter GVoice, probably try to cobble something similar for myself with Twilio, or at least that's my near term plan, only hoping one can create a dialer app for Android that does the same kinds of things.
I'd love to have more hope, but I'm observing the same mistakes playing out over and over. If this were a human relationship, I'd respectfully choose to go out separate ways. Unfortunately not a realistic option at this point, the Tech Titans have sunk their teeth into nearly everything on the net and acquired or suffocated the smalls.
I guess once your company culture allows you to U-turn so hard on something you’ve been pushing so much, as Google was Google+, U-turning on anything else becomes super easy.
I’ve used iPhones and Android Phones for so long I can confidently say I have only three complaints:
Lack of windows support OR gaming support on mac
Apple Maps using yelp is fucking stupid
Not letting all apps use safari extensions
If they could fix those three things, I would literally instantly go out and spend 3000+ dollars on a new top spec MacBook Pro and IPad Pro.
Good luck getting major customers onboard with GCP, no seriously. AWS right now is a clear choice over GCP in terms of company reputation alone. If you go to build a platform on AWS, you can be sure that the product will still exist in a decade (barring some world catastrophe), and that can't be said for GCP.
I get that those are entirely different divisions but overall company reputation matters a ton.
This is despite clients telling them it's a huge block to them investing in using the platform.
Idiots.
GCP is what would happen if npm js developers assembled an *aaS stack.
I work at MegaCorp™ and we wouldn't touch GCP with a grounded fiberglass pole.
The specs are very specific to gaming, and anything similar (1440p@120hz) will include the cost of the hardware required for local gaming.
Can you get 120 hz this cheap in Windows laptop?
... for a discrete set of tasks, maybe. As a general purpose OS, not a prayer. I know Chrome is trying to become its own OS, and seems to be making pretty good headway, but don't cheat yourself thinking "and I'll just ..." unless that task runs in Chrome. I'm aware of the Linux containers on approved devices but just like WSL2 has some grave impedance mismatch with its Windows parent, so too does Linux with its ChromeOS parent
Which negates the entire point of the OS and you might as well just run a regular desktop Linux where you don’t have to jump through hoops to do things and don’t have Google crammed up your ass.
And if not, maybe this'll come along soon: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/steam-on-chromeos/
Is it really that awkward though, like the end of Stadia wasn’t well predicted?
It was a smart move to open Chromebook's support to cloud gaming competitors. Stadia's performance was so poor, had they still supported it, it's hard to tell if it would discourage competitors from releasing on their hardware as well, my guess is it wouldn't.
Sadly, like basically everyone else, I never trusted Google enough to buy into the ecosystem - and consequently bought a grand total of 1 game.
Getting the new MBP actually pushed me to GeForce Now at the time which can hit true 4k@120hz and stream at native Mac resolutions with eg ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 now up to 70Mbps, I highly recommend trying it out if you’re still interested in cloud gaming, the difference is quite drastic.
That’s the strongest thing a platform can have.
There’s no compelling reason to buy something like this. Unless you are a really basic user who hops on band wagons or is a massive google fanboy for some unfathomable reason.