Google has lost all hope. Sundar Pinchai is at the helm of the next Titanic and missed the icebergs.....<p>they have failed to innovate and have doubled down on a losing strategy....I expect a race to the bottom until it kicks and they replace him....but it won't fix the issues...<p>it's too late. the company is now gorging on the corpse of society that it has nothing left to provide....it has become parasitic
This is going too far. Now you buy products or service at their fair price (Chromecast, Netflix,...) and they still push advertisment to you without any respect to squeeze the maximum of the user.
After years of investing into Google Home, I'm trying to unwind it. The assistant devices have gotten buggier and less responsive. The TV is bloated with ever more ads and suggested videos. They end of lifed the nest security system.<p>Not a good trajectory.
As most everyone expected, Google removed "Don't be evil" as their motto with the intention of going as far in the other direction as will drive short-term shareholder value.
Looks like Google is pushing or at least trialing full-screen, non-media-content, loud advertisements on their "Google TV" branded products. While this is for Chromecasts, it is possible it's coming to regular Google TV next...
It's astonishing how much Sundar has managed to tarnish Google's brand over the past few years with decisions like this that optimize for short-term gains at the expense of long-term reputational damage and customer goodwill.
I have the old Chromecast that came without a remote and it is great. It just sits there showing nature photos until I select something to watch using my phone.<p>I also have a "Google TV" one that comes with remote and it is terrible. The home screen is full of crap that I do not want. It suggests stupid youtube stuff for the kids. I have not figured out how to make it act like the old Chromecast.
What's the difference between Android TV and Google TV? Android TV (on my Nvidia Shield) added "recommendations", which are really just ads for streaming service content you may or may not have, but are otherwise associated with things in the ecosystem. Maybe a harbinger of things to come. Like Amazon Prime Video pre-roll ads for Prime content being replaced by regular ads.
We truly live in a boring dystopia. It is insane to think how much money and how many absolutely seething customers this will make and it happens again and again.