It's going to take a while before the general public realizes this.
You need to see multiple failures before you can move the needle on a giant. This is especially true of a popular brand which is seen on android phones everywhere and it's essentially intangible (one example: you buy an asus phone, you still see "with google", but you don't associate poor sw with google: people still blame asus).
It's also much slower for physical products.
If you don't buy new cars but go for the 10y low-mileage ones, you'll be about to start experiencing extremely shitty car infotainment systems where every system cloud feature is useless because the api endpoint is already broken.
For houses and appliances it's even longer.
The problem is those past products and broken cloud features will haunt companies even if they corrected themselves for newer ones. You can't get rid of those as fast as you drop cloud services and make people forget. Google (and others) will learn this the hard way, in the long term.
wakeupcall|2 years ago
You need to see multiple failures before you can move the needle on a giant. This is especially true of a popular brand which is seen on android phones everywhere and it's essentially intangible (one example: you buy an asus phone, you still see "with google", but you don't associate poor sw with google: people still blame asus).
It's also much slower for physical products.
If you don't buy new cars but go for the 10y low-mileage ones, you'll be about to start experiencing extremely shitty car infotainment systems where every system cloud feature is useless because the api endpoint is already broken.
For houses and appliances it's even longer.
The problem is those past products and broken cloud features will haunt companies even if they corrected themselves for newer ones. You can't get rid of those as fast as you drop cloud services and make people forget. Google (and others) will learn this the hard way, in the long term.