<story><title>Does Google need a new CEO?</title><url>https://om.co/2023/02/08/does-google-need-a-new-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ok_coo</author><text>The Stadia closure sealed it for me. Such amazing tech for what it was, completely unable to see the long-term and stay dedicated to a tech that&amp;#x27;s obviously going to have increasing adoption into the future. Handed over that entire market to MS without a fight. It even had a perfect release window during COVID when everyone was home and wasn&amp;#x27;t able to find PS5 or Xbox to buy.&lt;p&gt;Everything around that product was a summary of how Google handles things now. I can&amp;#x27;t take any new product release seriously from them anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>px43</author><text>I feel like Google used to be really big on the &amp;quot;release early, release often&amp;quot; mantra. At some point they turned more into Willy Wonka&amp;#x27;s Chocolate Factory. You can look in the windows and see them doing cool shit, but it never seems to make it to the general public.&lt;p&gt;Of course, most egregiously, they invented transformers like 6 years ago, and they&amp;#x27;ve had LaMDA for over a year, and only let people see small glimpses of it. Also, Waymo has been around for almost 15 years, and seems to have some really neat tech, but people can&amp;#x27;t actually use it. Calico has apparently made some massive breakthroughs with ISRIB treatments, and bought up all the patents so they have exclusive access to it, but seem to be keeping everything to themselves.&lt;p&gt;I feel like Google Code could have easily dominated over GitHub, but then they just let Microsoft have it.&lt;p&gt;Google does so much cool stuff, and I&amp;#x27;m grateful for the services that they offer, many of which I pay for. It just sucks that they&amp;#x27;ve gotten so stingy lately about what they release. I hope that changes soon.</text></comment>
<story><title>Does Google need a new CEO?</title><url>https://om.co/2023/02/08/does-google-need-a-new-ceo/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ok_coo</author><text>The Stadia closure sealed it for me. Such amazing tech for what it was, completely unable to see the long-term and stay dedicated to a tech that&amp;#x27;s obviously going to have increasing adoption into the future. Handed over that entire market to MS without a fight. It even had a perfect release window during COVID when everyone was home and wasn&amp;#x27;t able to find PS5 or Xbox to buy.&lt;p&gt;Everything around that product was a summary of how Google handles things now. I can&amp;#x27;t take any new product release seriously from them anymore.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wg0</author><text>Biggest thing that was wrong with Stadia - over promising. Like 4k@60Hz over internet is too bold and maybe doable from within Google Offices or Bay Area and that isn&amp;#x27;t a market enough.&lt;p&gt;Could go a guaranteed consistent and stable 720p@60Hz with a YouTube kind of Ad revenue model. You play, you watch the ads every X Minutes and revenue streams shared with developers.&lt;p&gt;Indie developer&amp;#x27;s heaven it could be.&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;#x27;t want ads? As subscription model could be the way. Best would have been to pick up tons of past titles BioShock, Mafia etc by being the goto place for recent retro games and gradually gaining traction in triple AAA segment.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Typos</text></comment>