[cryptoz]

> Still, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I see us announcing things that are not even nearly done yet.

What? The blog post explains that devices running Google TV will go on sale this month. That is, within the next 27 days you will be able to buy a Google TV.

How is that "not even nearly done yet"? Dude, the product goes on sale in less than 27 days. It's probably done.

[houseabsolute]

It was announced many months ago. I'm using this opportunity to talk about how unfortunate it is that we announced it so long ago and are only launching it now. I'm not saying this current announcement itself is a fail. :)

[donohoe]

It was announced months ago so they was a window for developers to start building things.

[mikeryan]

I'm not sure that's true (I'm not sure its not either) but in this case Google hasn't been very open to outside developers.

They have solutions for "optimizing your website for TV" but nothing on the dev page for developers but a coming soon. That and the fact that Android apps won't be available until 2011

http://www.google.com/tv/developers.html

[illumin8]

They said it would be available in September. Now they say it will be available in October. To me this seems like vaporware, specifically to keep people from buying AppleTV. They still don't have any content deals setup. I haven't heard any big players other than Netflix, which is already available on any Bluray player made (practically).

Where is Hulu? Where is ESPN? These are the networks they need to beat Apple in this market, and they're conspicuously absent. Even Youtube is supposed to have TV rentals "really soon now," but I haven't heard much about that recently.

Why does it seem that the only thing Google can do now is say "me too" whenever Apple releases a new product?

[joezydeco]

Um, wasn't GoogleTV announced at Google I/O in may, way before AppleTV2 was announced? How do you introduce vaporware to block the sale of something that didn't exist yet?