blinotz

This matters. I was mad at chrome till I read this comment.

Podcasting is perfect for big companies to wall off into their content gardens.

AmaCasts

YouGooCasts

SpotCasts

DisneyCasts

AppleCasts

Etc etc

All it will take is a tiny tiny tiny bit of money by the standards of these companies to buy anything with an audience.

Exactly the same at TV, you’ll need to find your podcast of choice on the channel that owns it.

There’s absolutely no valid reason why my iPad should have been a perfectly usable - even fast - web browsing device 5 years ago and is now so slow as to be basically useless.

You’re right they’ll likely keep android, chrome and YouTube.

I think they’ll give up on the cloud. Google has already given a succeed or close deadline on this.

What are the “many many others” you refer to? I suspect those are the ones google will kill.

What won’t google shut down?

Maybe instead of dragging out a seemingly endless series of customer trust sapping product shutdowns it should just decide what it’s keeping them split the company into what it’s keeping and what it’s killing.

Here’s my prediction of what will finally be left standing:

Search

Search advertising

Maps

Gmail

50% chance they’ll keep their cloud 50% chance it’s already living dead like rackspace.

Everything else will go.

It’s starting to feel like google is in trouble.

My former partner behaved in narcisstic ways from time to time.

I didn’t even know what narcissism was until after we broke up after 8 years.

But dealing with narcissistic behavior was absolutely awful. It left me mystified about all sorts of things to do with us, as well as hurt and feeling abused.

She’d never ever acknowledge her narcissistic behavior so even recognizing it puts you in the right path to addressing it.

And for those people who suspect they have close relationships with narcissistic behavior, run if you can.

Google was the natural “winner” of the cloud computing game.

Google has internet in its DNA it never did anything else but internet.

But it failed to see the opportunity in the first place.

Secondly I attribute its lack of customer service to its recruiting and hiring practice.... it only ever hired the most geeky of geeky academics.

And geeky academics are the opposite of human relationship oriented.

Thus everyone at google designed the company to avoid human contact.

And that surely the complete opposite of customer service.

Google has the inverse of good customer service DNA... it has “hide from and avoid customer contact” DNA.

And that’s what has sunk the google cloud. $10B might sound like a lot, but to me it sounds like a gigantic fail.

Whatever the number, it would be 10 times better if google didn’t have such a terrible terrible customer service reputation plus a reputation for closing services down.

Google utterly fails to understand the need for its customers to trust that google will support and service them and not destroy their business after building on a google platform.

Apparently they are completely oblivious to these things being important though.

Right here on HN are the influencers who tell companies to use this or that techonology and there’s a loud howling from everyone that googles support is beyond bad and that you’d be mad to risk building on any google service cause they’ll shut it down.

Could you use an external capture device like an elgato which is about $100 And use it with obs to transmit your screen? Sorry speaking from ignorance about true nature of issue just a guess.

It’s not free work.

No company gets candidates to do coding tests as a way to get productive real world tasks completed.

Just don’t do it when a companies test task is too onerous.

Can’t a deal be done for google to give it to you instead of killing it?