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Itisd t1_j3ujp0a wrote

Typical for Microsoft to develop something, and then completely abandon it

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doubletagged t1_j3vas16 wrote

That’s google’s signature style: https://killedbygoogle.com

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Timequake-Droid t1_j3wrns9 wrote

Yeah I mean all the major consumer tech problems have done a fair share of this. Google is known for abandoning software not so much hardware. They do abandon hardware too but Microsoft has a much longer grave site list when it comes to abandon hardware then Google. Google basically just has the pixelbook and the pixel slate.

Microsoft has the duo, the zune, surface pro x, the neo, basically every arm-based mobile product I've ever made has been abandoned, The windows phone.... The surface book appears to be dead. Continuum..

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jnemesh t1_j3y7rf3 wrote

Google has had their fair share of hardware failures too...Stadia comes to mind.

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SharkyIzrod t1_j45kjwr wrote

>Microsoft has the duo, the zune, surface pro x, the neo, basically every arm-based mobile product I've ever made has been abandoned, The windows phone.... The surface book appears to be dead. Continuum..

This is a dishonest way to put it for the bolded products, though.

  • The Duo, as the article mentions, will simply not continue with two separate screens and instead will have one foldable screen. That's like saying they "abandoned" the Xbox because they released a successor product. They are iterating and changing the product, and we'll see if the name sticks or not.
  • The Surface Pro X was just an ARM-based Surface Pro with an SQ 1 or SQ 2 chip, as it was refreshed in late 2020. It was not abandoned because the last ARM-based Surface Pro to come out came out two months ago, it's just in the same body as the x86 Surface Pro products now. You can get a Surface Pro 9 with the SQ3. The 9 simply merged the X and the regular x86 lines.
  • The Neo never came out (and I'm guessing it won't).
  • The Surface Book was superseded by the Surface Laptop Studio, which means that, similarly to the Pro X, the concept/product category changed/evolved with the successor, not that it was abandoned.
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phantasybm t1_j3x9o2i wrote

Should they continue to invest money into something no one wants ?

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what595654 t1_j4bj2nw wrote

That is all large companies. You throw money at something and see how it does. That is how they should function. Why keep a product that isnt making you money? Sure, they could continue iterating and maybe just maybe some day it makes money. Or they can jump to something more potentially lucrative in a shorter period of time. As companies in highly competitive markets. Markets change so fast. Any company that stagnates will get left behind. And apparently it is proven that scrapping something and using those resources elsewhere, is more profitable, than sticking with something long term, since so many large companies adopt that approach.

A smaller company may only have one product, hence they stick with it for as long as it is profitable.

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