[Animats]

Yes. They already angered the game dev community, and few believe Stadia will stay around. This angers the industrial internet-of-things community. You can get Siemens industrial equipment tied to Google IoT Core. Hopefully you don't already have it installed. Industrial controls people think in terms of decades, not months.

A Coursera class on Google IoT Core for industrial control started today. 77,000 people signed up.

[drusepth]

>few believe Stadia will stay around

I think the people that still think Stadia is gonna shut down any time soon are just the gamer blogs/communities that have been running shutdown rumor pieces every month or so for the last 3 years. (Most recently the killedbygoogle guy's "my friend heard on facebook that Stadia's shutting down..." post that went viral.)

Stadia's actively signing hardware deals with Samsung/LG and other smart TV manufacturers, and about to expand availability to even more countries. AFAICT most people that actually play on Stadia don't think it'll shut down any time soon.

[hammyhavoc]

Twitter users who apparently play Stadia tell quite a different story in every encounter I've had with them.

[sofixa]

I play Stadia. Couples of weeks ago, ToS change. Couple of days ago, an ad on my LG TV that if i sign up for Stadia i get 3 months free, and the Stadia app is very prominently shown in the Applications menu. Same on my ISP's Android TV box. Each month ~10 games get added to the Stadia Pro tier.

Stadia isn't going anywhere soon, or the people working in the division haven't been told and have continued spending money left and right with partnership deals, which would be a weird waste of money.

[effingwewt]

'Stadia isn't going anywhere soon, or the people working in the division haven't been told and have continued spending money left and right with partnership deals, which would be a weird waste of money.'

LOL, that is Google 101.

Allow me to introduce you to the Google Graveyard[1]

[1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

[sofixa]

Very few, if any, of those killed by Google things, are products one paid for, let alone had paid partnerships with third parties. The situation really isn't comparable.

[hammyhavoc]

They just killed IoT Core.

[pjmlp]

This year GDC Google announced a new support libraries for migration into Stadia, as very few studios want to mess with Linux and Vulkan, and then be told Stadia is no more.

[api]

> This angers the industrial internet-of-things community.

Hopefully they'll learn that if it's locked down to being tied to one person's cloud it's likely to become a paperweight in a few years.

[solarkraft]

I still think it's generally terrible style to fully depend on external services (and should probably legislatively disallowed), but there are differences. You can probably get a contract over a decade from some vendors.

[yunohn]

> Coursera class … started today… 77000 signed up

That’s actually just a Coursera marketing tactic. Most of their courses are not real-time and are self-paced content.

So, they act like they are starting the course “Today” every day, and the 77k enrolled is the # of enrolled users forever since the course has been offered. Totally misleading!