[rossjudson]

Stadia was pretty technically awesome, and also a rounding error on Google's overall engineering budget.

"Ambitious" engineering means something very different inside of Google. Example: Spanner. Infra Spanner is correctly described as a "generational achievement". Very few people outside of Google have any idea that it exists, or what it does, and that's fine.

[taeric]

Stadia was yet another platform that Google tried to make and failed. Yes, it was a rounding error in their budget, but that is largely the point!

They have become a financing company that is looking for where to spend money to make money. That they are spending a lot of money on developers will only last as long as that makes them money.

Again, this is not, necessarily, bad. I just don't trust them to make a software product that will survive outside of their garden.