Two years on a Pixel Pass was supposed to get you a new phone.

Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months::Two years on a Pixel Pass was supposed to get you a new phone.

    • @fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47•1 year ago

      I want to switch to Google Fiber but I can’t shake the thought that as soon as I do they’ll shut down operations and pawn my soul off to Satan ISP

      • MrGerritEnglish
        26•1 year ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised.

        Look at stadia, I knew it would be a rocky road for them to market it, but by also buying game studios with the intentions to make and release games, I was under the impression that they would keep going with it. They pumped so much money in to it.

        Oh boy, how wrong I was.

        • @Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8•1 year ago

          I knew it was doomed when they announced the business model. Subscription + buying the games was never going to fly. If they had gone with a Game Pass style subscription, it would have had a chance.

          • @SnipingNinja@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            It wasn’t that though, it was just miscommunicated, the subscription was a ps+ type thing, while you could buy games and play them for no additional costs at 1080p. Having Phil Harrison lead the whole thing didn’t help either (he rejected Hideo Kojima’s offer to make an exclusive game for stadia ffs)

        • @olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8•1 year ago

          I never considered it because the game streaming is still pretty new and I’ve never forgiven Google for killing the news reader.

        • @bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          I will never move to GCP because of this. The reputation damage with Reader, Stadia, Hangouts, etc has made me not want to invest moving my companies services to their cloud. I doubt they are factoring this in when they shutter a service, but it is costing them millions. Google has shown it can’t commit to supporting their products and services, so why bother spending time integrating with them and get locked in, just for it to be depreciated or discontinued immediately.

        • @GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12•1 year ago

          Both are also in heavily regulated industries with oversight from state utility commissions and the FCC, where simply trying to exit a market requires a whole proceeding before the agency/commission. They could announce that they’d be exiting the industry and selling its assets to a competitor, but that would have to clear antitrust hurdles and would take a while.

          I think that means that effectively, they can’t just “kill” these services but would have to sell to someone else, and the approval process itself could result in some concessions for the consumer, so that even Satan ISP would have limited power to really screw over the consumer.