Our Lady of Transitory Endeavor Archives

Maps shows Apple’s stick-to-itiveness, highlighting Google’s lack of perseverance

Monday, August 26, 2019 4:32 pm9 Comments

What Apple did in response to all of the negative press around Apple Maps? They didn’t give up, they got to work, kept at it for years, and are still…

Apple’s iPad claims another victim: Google exits tablet business

Friday, June 21, 2019 8:53 am6 Comments

Tech giant Google has officially announced its exit from the tablet business…

Pixel 3a: Google takes a desperate step into the Android morass of cheap commodity phones

Thursday, May 9, 2019 11:55 am6 Comments

When Google decided to stop rebranding its partners’ Androids as Nexus models and launched…

Google trims size of its Pixelbook laptop and Pixel Slate tablet division, raising questions about future hardware plans

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 9:45 am6 Comments

Google has moved dozens of employees out of its laptop and tablet division…

Google killing Allo messaging service

Thursday, December 6, 2018 12:56 pmThursday, December 6, 20181 Comment

Allo, once the vanguard platform of Google’s plans for messaging, will officially shut down…

Why is Google so bad at innovation? 44 dead products and counting…

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 4:28 pmWednesday, December 5, 201824 Comments

The failure rate is even higher if you count the Google X moonshot projects…

Google’s new ‘YouTube Music’ is not a threat to Apple Music or Spotify

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 4:06 pmTuesday, May 22, 20187 Comments

Announced earlier this month, Alphabet subsidiary Google is launching its new YouTube Music service today…

Google gives up on tablets: Android P marks an end to its efforts to take on Apple’s iPad

Friday, March 9, 2018 11:27 am13 Comments

Google appears ready to give up on tablets entirely…

Our Lady of Transitory Endeavor strikes again: Google kills Chromebook Pixel laptop

Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3:59 pmWednesday, March 1, 201722 Comments

In a small meeting with journalists at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today…

Google to try to overcome Pixel phones’ myriad weaknesses with massive advertising blitz

Friday, October 7, 2016 4:50 pmFriday, October 7, 201617 Comments

Google’s new ‘Pixel’ smartphone is off to a fast marketing start with $3.2 million in television ads…

Google is axing Chrome apps for Mac and Windows

Saturday, August 20, 2016 4:04 pmSaturday, August 20, 201612 Comments

Google will be killing off Chrome apps for both Mac and Windows in the next few years…

Google launches Apple FaceTime killer ‘Duo’

Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:31 amTuesday, August 16, 201623 Comments

Google and Apple have battled each other for years for primacy over mobile users…

Google plans to release its own smartphone and it will fail

Thursday, July 7, 2016 6:01 pmThursday, July 7, 201613 Comments

Google has quite a few reasons to design its own smartphone and have better control over its software, services, and users…

Alphabet’s new empire is crumbling

Thursday, July 7, 2016 1:26 pmThursday, July 7, 201615 Comments

For years we’ve been treated to a few common memes from high ranking members…

Google’s Eric Schmidt reveals his Apple iPhone

Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:47 pmTuesday, May 24, 201610 Comments

Schmidt, chief executive for Alphabet and former Google boss, revealed he had an Apple iPhone…

Alphabet shuts down Google Glass social media accounts

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 11:25 amThursday, January 28, 20166 Comments

Alphabet Inc’s Google shut down several social media accounts linked to the Glass gadget, ending its push…

Facebook employees forced by management to drop their preferred iPhones for Android phones

Monday, November 2, 2015 2:32 pmMonday, November 2, 201546 Comments

Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, is forcing an untold number of Facebook employees…

Porsche chooses Apple Car Play over Android Auto because of Google’s rampant data collection demands

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 9:58 amTuesday, October 6, 201527 Comments

So much for “Do No Evil.” As part of the agreement an automaker would have to enter with Google, certain pieces of data must be collected and mailed back to Alphabet Inc…