Comment by hocuspocus

2 years ago

> Better late than never. I think OnePlus and Samsung had this feature since like 2019 or so.

The 2017 Essential Phone 1 had the feature. So did many 2017 or 2018 flagships from Samsung, LG, HTC, Huawei, Sony, Asus.

Google is petty sometimes. Earlier they killed Miracast for Chromecast exclusively, even if virtually all SoCs for the past 10+ years support it.

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hocuspocus

Rinzler89 2 years ago

>Google is petty sometimes.

Google has no idea how to develop and support a product, period. If that product or feature isn't bringing in billions in ad revenue, then it doesn't matter to them.

  Exhibit A: Pixel getting shittier by the year
  Exhibit B: Android wearables
  Exhibit C: Android tablets
  Exhibit D: Nest thermostats
  Exhibit E: Google Home products not being able to properly work with each other despite being on the same WLAN and made by the same company
  Exhibit F,G,H,I,J,K,ELEMENOPE

The weirdest one to me is the introduction of the IR temperature sensor on the Pixel 8 Pro, without the possibility to read skin temperature, which was added months later, this year. Just WHY?! It would have been cool to have during peak Covid infectious season, but not 2-4 years after, when nobody* gives a shit anymore about Covid.

I swear, product dev at Google is being run by one of those wind-up circus monkey toys playing the cymbals that Homer Simpson has in his head[1], and all engineers at Google just roll with it without question while Sundar is busy pumping the stock talking about AI. I'm waiting for them to introduces a Pixel with a temperature probe you'll have to stick up your *ss and it reads what you had for lunch and recommends you new restaurants on Google Maps.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC7Y04k5Tbo