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Google lays off hundreds in Assistant, hardware, engineering teams (www.reuters.com)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just don't get how all of these "Smart" devices continue to get stupider. Why are they removing existing features or making them worse to use?

It's gotten to the point where I'm currently working on a project to roll my own dumb smart display and speakers with a RPi, Magic Mirror, and a DAC/amp hat.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 18 points 11 months ago

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.