[time0ut]

My impression is that most of Google’s failures are strategic. Stadia, for example, has been executed very well in the technical sense. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense strategically. I feel every failure I can think of fits this mold of great technology solving the wrong problem or held back from solving the right problem.

[senttoschool]

Google is very engineering led. From my experience working with software developers, and as a software developer myself, they're really bad at the business aspect of things. They're too idealistic and not practical.

That and their culture of "move fast, fail fast" means they pull the rug just as fast as they lay it out.

[etempleton]

Google’s pricing model didn’t even make sense. Pay for a subscription and then buy the games that will forever be locked on the Stadia service? Why would anyone want to do that. Microsoft was just rolling out Gamepass, why would you not do that in the cloud?