“Google chairman Eric Schmidt made an aggressive prediction at the Le Web conference in Paris that Google TV would dictate the TV landscape by summer 2012,” Electronista reports.
“He believed that the ‘majority of televisions you see in stores’ should have the Android-based OS build inside over the course of the next several months,” Electronista reports. “No indication was given of which companies were involved and how many of their models would make the leap.”
By the summer of 2012, because the product cycles are long, the majority of the televisions that you see in the television stores here will have Google TV embedded in it – Google’s Eric Schmidt, December 8, 2011
Electronista reports, “The claim is an ambitious one and may not be supported by practical reality.”
Read more in the full article, with video, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Pfft. Mole must’ve bumped his head on a rock digging one of his tunnels. iCal’ed.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
He’s shoveling FUD fast and piling it deep. Must be really worried about whats left of his job.
Imagine the return lines at BestBuy
hilarious Gman…LOL
And just how are people supposed to interact with all these Google TVs when Logitech pulled the plug on its Google TV keyboard?
AndroidOS will draw menus which now drawn by TV manufacturers’ own software. Usual TV remote will do the controlling.
Android OS installation base will grow even faster thanks to this useless version of it.
The new generation on snake oil salesman
I use my xbox 360 for all my streaming needs. No need for googletv
Did Eric T. Mole make a stop off at Amsterdam before landing in Paris? Can you believe all the sh$t that’s come out of his mouth at the conference this week?
Wow… Eric T Mole has gone completely bat-shit crazy.
That is such a croc and everyone knows it’s a croc
Why would he say something like that? Just to completely torpedo his credibility?
Mission accomplished.
Nah, he hasn’t gone bat-shit crazy. He’s gone full on 1984.
The government really needs to investigate Googles purchase of Motorola a lot more than it is currently.
Google purchasing Motorola is far worse for consumers than AT&Ts bid for T-Mobile.
lol MDN
He’s not talking about stand alone boxes , but incorporated into manufacturers HDTVs .
I thought that would be the route Apple would take, low margin HDTVs with ATV built on
A tv is a dumb monitor. Why the hell would I want an OS in it? I already have a shitty cable/sat box OS, Xbox OS, AppleTV OS and they work fine. Why would my TV need an OS?
So it can run Siri my friend.
It’s strange Google doesn’t get it.
People watching TV just want to sit down and start watching TV, with little to no menu navigation or button pressing. No one trying to watch TV wants to fiddle around with 100-button remotes and search through a maze of inconsistent menus.
Google TV software is not easy to use, and that is why it is complete nonstarter.
Reality is that Google TV failed in a box, why would any of the TV manufacturers think it would be any better in there TV’s.
Remember Google TV wasn’t licensed for most of the content they offered so 99% of it was blocked by the providers. Do you really want to buy something that you won’t be able to use?
I certainly don’t. I certainly don’t want to deal with there 2000 button remote like they had in there box. Even if Google gets to market first with a TV I have a feeling Apple will trump Google by making what Steve Jobs had in mind and that will be the end of Google TV.
It is worth reading the Gizmodo article about this, which is titled: “Eric Schmidt Insanely Claims Google TV Will Come with “Majority” of TVs Next Year (NO)”
Yes, Gizmodo, blah blah blah.
Once upon a time, we enjoyed Balmer’s predictions and pronouncements. Then it got quiet and we suffered. All hail the new Balmer and MDN’s ascendant punchbag !
He also believes we will all be getting to work in flying cars by the end of the summer.
Erics next press release.
“may not be supported by practical reality” — what a great tag line! Slightly subtle, but evocative. It’s fun to read “like such as”. The phrasing is also somewhat reminiscent of The Economist’s serendipitous tags.
Eric Schidt (my preferred spelling) probably thought nobody in the US would hear these ridiculous claims.
C’mon, MDN, iCal this now!
I’ve got Google on my 40″ HDTV.
Every time I select my Mac Mini and do a search with it.
The last thing I want is an obtrusive OS on my TV.
I do imagine that Google has been working with several TV manufacturers who are anxious about the much-rumored iTV. So there may well be several new Android-equipped TVs on the way in coming months. I very much doubt that The Mole just boasted without something up his sleeve.
That said, I doubt that Google has a product as good as AppleTV — much less anything that would rival the mythical iTV.
lots of talk from google
Wow, if all of Schmidt’s predictions come true, Google will rule the software universe in less than a year! If such a grand takeover were possible, you’d think we’d see signs of it by now…
——RM
The guy is a delusional idiot.
Sure is as is that idot shrink Keith Ablow who made the comments about Siri. What the heck is going on in this crazy world? No ethics, liars, cheats, quacks, copycats, morons. Have I left something out? Oh yes, can’t stand that idot, backdtabbing, liar, cheater, whatever he he is Schidt!
Wow. The stuff Schmidt is uttering this week make Ballmer’s predictions of continued world domination look like pearls of wisdom and truth. Whatever fountain Eric’s been drinking out of, I’d like some too.