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Google unveils Googlebook
technewstoday.net/googlebook-ai-native-laptops-price-specs/
Replying to @Souvik@lemdro.id
The biggest selling point for Chromebooks was that they are A) Cheap and B) Simple/Fast. Education and Enterprise used them because they were easy to manage.
The cheapest Googlebook is $899 and it’s biggest selling features are a bunch of AI junk nobody asked for. They also cannot be managed yet in the Google Admin Console.
I expect this to flop something terrible.
Replying to @chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
Chromebooks and Chromecast both seemed to be really successful, affordable and focused things. Very Google, and different from Apple and Microsoft’s style of doing things.
Yet here we are, with both of them phased out or being phased out. I don’t get it.
Replying to @paraphrand@lemmy.world
Google has this really deep-rooted problem where they keep accidentally, through no fault or intention of their own, making things people actually like. It’s very upsetting and from all other indications they are doing everything they can to prevent it from ever happening again, and yet it keeps happening. Nobody can explain why. All they can do is immediately cancel the problematic products and services the moment they realize people actually like them.