Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game studio... Because Big Tech is not really dedicated to non-core Projects

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 02:38:26 -0800

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

This is why I largely don't excited at all any more about announcements from Google, Microsoft and similar Big Tech about #MeToo products they announce as they generally seem to lose all interest after just a few short years. Google did it with Reader, Microsoft has done it numerous times with various messengers, and now they're trying it with Teams to know out Slack.

Have you ever noticed that the most innovation and dedication comes from CEO's who were the founders of a particular product or service? Their very survival depends on that one product, and it is generally a very good product to have got where it gets to, until it's bought out or a Big Tech comes along and tries to just smother them.

As I've pointed out in previous posts we need more interoperability so that diverse products can work together better and all flourish. You choose what you want to use or not, based on its merits. It reminds very much of some ERP solutions where a company like Oracle just sticks some stuff together, none of which are great products, but you've got an all-in-one, and you cannot swap any of it out for anything else.

See Google is shutting down its in-house Stadia game studio

#technology #interoperability #bigtech #stadia

Google on Monday confirmed plans to shut down stadiaâ€™s internal game development division less than two years after launch.

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Tue, 02 Feb 2021 03:59:36 -0800

yodahome

yodahome@hub.medienbildung.ovgu.de

Well, I believe that's because of Google's inherent core business, which still seems to be big data and advertisement. If those projects don't add anything to that end, they seem to not have any incentive to keep it around. They don't make any money from the services, which ist a shame really, because others seem to do it well without ads. E.g. I use a Shadow instance for gaming (a virtual gaming PC in the cloud) and I like that model, because I already have the games (on Steam, GOG, Epic, Origin etc) I want to play. The games don't need to be changed in any way, unlike Stadia it seems. What I think Google takes away from that is user data of how people play what, but that's only worth the effort if you get a huge dataset. Or they may already have gotten the data they wanted out of it. That's where I feel transparency could help, if we knew what exactly is done with the data the company collects, we might see in advance, whether they really want a service to stick around at all.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 04:43:27 -0800

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Lest we forget too Google+ which many people spent a lot of time building up content and although it had a few hundred million users, Google just lost interest. That was the one that broke it for me, as G+ actually worked fine with some unique features. But as you say Google's real business is search and ads ;-)

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 08:24:27 -0800

Kazimierz Kurz

kakaz@pluspora.com

With all of this, Google reader was the most pathetic example: it costs they nothing, they had information about your subscription, they can display commercials. But they decide they cannot afford this

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:42:16 -0800

yodahome

yodahome@hub.medienbildung.ovgu.de

@GadgeteerZA You mean orkut? I liked orkut. :wink: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 13:14:26 -0800

Flav

flvc1@zotum.net

@gadgeteer@hubzilla.gadgeteer.co.za They've also killed Google Play Music and built YouTube Music from scratch which is doing the exact same thing.