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Google Hardware Makes Cuts to Laptop and Tablet Development, Cancels Products

posted by martyb on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-many-programmers-does-it-take-to-change-a-light-bulb? dept.

Phoenix666 writes in with a story from Ars Technica:

A report from Business Insider claims that Google has axed "dozens" of employees from its laptop and tablet division. BI's sources describe the move as causing "roadmap cutbacks" and that Google will likely "pare down the portfolio" in the future.

[...] Google's Hardware division is run by Rick Osterloh and is expected to launch a game streaming console later this month. The division is responsible for the Pixel phones, Google Home speakers, the Chromecast, Google Wi-Fi, and lately, the Nest smart home division.

Why is Google having a hard time cracking the hardware market?

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:08PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 14 2019, @05:08PM (#814303) Journal

    The problem with Yahoo was that while categorized - soggy jobs is categorized geographically - it was not _curated_.

    I disagree. Yahoo's approach checks off the boxes.

    Such curation must therefore be performed by experts; for the most part, serious hobbyists would do fine, or those who actually work in the industry. Again in the case of yahoo, even if it were not a general purpose list it was prepared by regular computer industry employees and not by application-area specialists.

    Don't buy it. Expert knowledge would not be that useful in the case of Yahoo's lists. It's not going to make you more likely to know of obscure websites or add that much in evaluating the quality of known websites. And the kinds of expert knowledge that would apply, said computer industry employees could obtain just as well.

    As to your examples, Soggy Jobs sounds like it might be useful as a curated target for a search engine to index, but not the case of the restaurant supply list (one doesn't need to be much of an expert to understand when people are selling restaurant supplies and there's a fair bit of turnover, particularly from businesses that occasionally sell such things, but not on a regular basis).