It can be summoned and controlled from phones, tablets, laptops, or home devices.
Just hit that button on your phone, and your TV, tuner, stereo, or speakers will spring to life with whatever it is you want to watch or hear. That little square with the radio beacon at the bottom left might as well be a giant red “S”, as it’s arguably saved streaming media from the pits of complex geekiness and ushered in a new era of utter simplicity. I am talking about the Chromecast service or protocol. Not the Made-By-Google dongle which goes by many names, shapes and designs. The same company launched a pair of glasses with a camera on them! Boy I tell ya, there’s nothing like friends getting together for some fun and one guy shows up wearing a camera on his face tech media took to calling such people, “Glassholes”.Įxhibit A is one of my favorite Google successes: Chromecast. This is the company that spent nine years trying to supply internet to rural areas via a network of hot air balloons! I’m not kidding it was aptly named Project Loon (y). Think I’m exaggerating? Well, let’s stop and think for a moment.
Hang on, maybe “enjoy” is not the right word. To start, I just want to focus on one particular quality Google possesses that seems to be part of their corporate DNA inside every idea, every product and every service. I’m sure there are books by people more knowledgeable and better spoken than me on that topic, but I have some thoughts. How did this crazy expansion from search to basically everything else actually happen? Failing up In short, Google is everywhere today, living inside a vast array of hardware and services designed to make our lives easier, more fun, and more productive (or to give birth to Skynet, depending on who you ask).
It powers her email, calendar, photos, chats and reminders. After all, the Google she knows in 2022 lives on a small white screen or donut-shaped puck in almost every room, on her phone and tablet, and on my car dash. When I told my daughter that Google began as a search engine – and only a search engine – her jaw dropped.
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