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by ocdtrekkie 3582 days ago
"Graduation" doesn't mean success. It seems to just mean "it moved out of X", even though usually that's just to somewhere else in Google it makes no money and sells no products.

- Verify/Life Sciences is failing pretty hard and has failed to develop any actual products. https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/28/google-life-sciences-exo...

- Glass is an absolute failure. I own one, I loved mine. It's still a failure.

- Gcam went to... Google Research? It went from moonshot R&D to normal R&D. That's not success.

- Google Brain... went to Research as well. And really, it is likely just a rebranded version of whatever DeepMind was already doing when Google bought them.

- Project Tango went from Google's moonshot R&D to Motorola's R&D (ATAP) which Google kept ownership of. That's also not success.

Android Wear, Flux, and Project Insight (Indoor Maps) probably all count as actual successes for X, but that's about it.