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Google is the new IBM (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All true. The monetization wasn't even that bad, it was more so the marketing. Lots of people didn't know about Stadia or were against it because of the bad launch they had.

I think the service would've done far better had Google made some guarantees like "all your purchases will be refunded if we shutdown in the next 10 years" and then ran a new ad campaign for it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Stadia was neither open enough to excite nerds and build a tech community nor polished or straightforward enough to go straight to pure consumers (notpowersuserss).

That's my take at least