“But Google has asked the TV makers to delay their introductions, according to people familiar with the company’s plans, so that it can refine the software, which has received a lukewarm reception,” Vance and Miller report. “The late request caught some of the manufacturers off guard.”
Vance and Miller report, “Google has a long history of putting out new products and then revising them on the fly. But in the consumer electronics market, companies place big, well-timed bets — to attract holiday buyers, say, or back-to-school shoppers… [Previously] phone and computer makers have been forced to push back their plans to release tablets based on a [newer version of Google’s Android] software, leaving Apple’s iPad as the tablet king this Christmas. Now similar problems may be plaguing Google TV. Industry analysts also say Google’s sudden change of plans reflects a weakness in the company’s business culture around managing relationships with partners… So far, Google TV is not ready for prime time, according to consumer technology reviewers and some early customers.”
MacDailyNews Take: Our Lady of Perpetual Beta™ strikes again. To borrow a question from another master of half-assery: “Where do you want to go today?™” Google will take you halfway there, then dump you off at the side of a dead end road; a few hundge lighter and without a map.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Travis L.” for the heads up.]
Google, the Master Betas of the net!
I thought google would give you a map. Might not take you to the right location though.
Apple needs to ignore the the channels that aren’t on board and get them to beg to be part of Apple’s TV options. Open up the tsunami of apps for the AppleTV. Let the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch work as multi gesture remotes and game controllers. Multi player / user apps working through the AppleTV to your home HD entertainment TV sound system will pull their viewers away to something that is a lot more fun for people to do. Through in some FaceTime too.
Think about it. You can sit and watch TV commercials 50% of the time OR have fun 100% of the time. Which do you think will win?
Also, keep in mind. All the users and players would not need to be at the same location. Just somewhere on the internet. Could even tie in that NEW BILLION DOLLAR SERVER FARM to power the apps!
Speaking of beta…how about Apple’s lackluster MobileMe? MobileMe has been “beta” software for a long time and doesn’t justify the 50 dollars a year (at cheapest) Apple charges.
Remember everyone, “The server farm is on schedule” for this month. Do you remember that maintenance shut down about a week and a half ago? I assume it is on line now. Mac app store is Jan. 6th I think. Maybe the AppleTV app store too? (If not then soon after.)
lol dunno which is your wittiest: “Our Lady Of Perpetual Beta” or “Ballmer T. Clown”…great stuff, MDN, and Merry Christmas (or Merry A-Messiah-To-Be-Named-Latermas.)
Tom, I got the family plan and have for years. If you have several Apple products and devices, you might see the reason to tie them all together with a MobleMe account. I am extremely confident that Apple’s firewall will keep my family data and information safe. Who are you trusting? Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, …?
I thought Betamax was dead . . . and then along came Google!
And why can’t these manufacturers tell that the software is not ready for prime time. How the heck can these knuckleheads go into CES and demonstrate and say what the capabilities are if it doesn’t work?????
Holy crap, don’t any of these manufacturers actually test their products?
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If this keeps up, the new slang term for any kind of premature release will be to “pull a Google.”
@Jersey_Trader
Seems like you could make a strong case for Apple to buy Slingbox, given all of the great hardware they have and being able to use your subscription anywhere is quite a hook.
Google is all talk but has little to show for it. There over priced and over promised google TV is a total failure. They promised way to much without sealing the deals with the networks and online content providers. That back fired big time. I think Google thought everyone would just hand everything over to them on a silver platter. Boy did they get that WRONG!!!!!
Most of the beta stuff Google produces is the normal stuff that happens with software; however, this GoogleTV stuff is not a software product, it’s a hardware/software combination and selling a virtually nonworking beta requires a higher standard. Google needs to either do a recall or refund people’s money for selling something they could not deliver.
Just ordered two more tv’s for family members!
although, i am slightly impressed that Google actually admitted that their software isn’t ready for primetime yet…
Premature Egooglelation
I’m waiting for Google to start jamming up their Google TV version numbers as they have been doing with Chrome, as if higher numbers equal experience and quality. Such shysters.
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@Tom
True, MobileMe is not as mature as it could (or should) be. But it is also not a flagship product on the same order as the Google TV which was supposed to change the world. So the two are not exactly on the same level of failure. Plus, MobileMe mostly works…
Google TV will be a flop, period. The TV is overwhelming meant for entertainment and any platform that aspires to be the TV king must realize this fact.
Google is wasting its time by making the TV a working tool. The web belongs to the desktop, the laptop and the tablets and there is where it will stay. I don’t want to lug my 50-inch TV with me wherever I need to go. The laptops and the tablets and not the TVs are the most convenient vehicle for the web.
The Google TV FAIL continues to be all over the news this week. Sony of course is “optimistic” because the company has lost its perspective on quality.
Either Google are freaked by the FAIL and are going back to the drawing board to make an actually innovative redesign, or this another scar on their declining reputation.
And yes Google trolls, bite me.
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