[nlstitch]

TBH Im not surprised. The quality of their products is worsening to the point Im looking for alternatives; Google Home is as stupid or worse (still no conversations or clarification WHY it doesnt understand certain input.) to their software missing basic features for ages now, like offline Google Maps missing speed limits or even addresses of spots you favorited.. Search becoming worse, No proper way to flag bad ads in Youtube. Not to mention them being behind on the AI battle or Cloud Computing.

[asdfman123]

The downturn affecting all of tech is a lot more salient than this narrative

[afavour]

…what would that have to do with them pausing work on a campus?

[chii]

The OP is assuming that funds being directed towards a campus is extraneous spending that could've been directed towards making products better instead.

[asdfman123]

If they knew anything about Google they’d understand how wrong that is.

If any human organization to ever exist on the face of the earth has enough money, it is Google.

The reason why their products increasingly can seem long in the tooth is that corporate work is a huge game of telephone, where messages from the top to the bottom and vice versa get horribly garbled.

Add in a culture that rewards shipping features, but not necessarily good ones.

[rlanday]

This is hard to believe given the quality of most software, but at some point, one might expect a decline in product quality to harm revenue and profitability, which would reduce or eliminate the need for headcount growth.

[itsoktocry]

>Google Home is as stupid or worse

Now that "modern AI" is mainstream culture, the (lack of) capability of Google Home is astounding. It's 50/50 whether it can get even basic commands correct.

[klooney]

It turns out that giving the devices away and then losing money every time someone says something near them is a bad way to run a business.