[opendtv] Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews

From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:46:30 -0500
Google TV Faces Delays Amid Poor Reviews

By ASHLEE VANCE and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
December 19, 2010

Google TV has just enacted its first programming cancellation.

The Consumer Electronics Show next month in Las Vegas was meant to be 
the great coming-out party for Google's new software for televisions, 
which adds Web video and other computer smarts to TV sets. Although 
Google already has a deal with Sony for its Internet TVs, other 
television makers - Toshiba, LG Electronics and Sharp - were prepared 
to flaunt their versions of the systems.

But Google has asked the TV makers to delay their introductions, 
according to people familiar with the company's plans, so that it can 
refine the software, which has received a lukewarm reception. The 
late request caught some of the manufacturers off guard. And it 
illustrates the struggles Google faces as it tries to expand into the 
tricky, unfamiliar realm of consumer electronics, and drum up broad 
interest in a Web-based TV product that consumers want.

Google has a long history of putting out new products and then 
revising them on the fly. But in the consumer electronics market, 
companies place big, well-timed bets - to attract holiday buyers, 
say, or back-to-school shoppers.

This year, for example, computer makers waited for Google's new 
ChromeOS software so they could ship new types of Web-based laptops. 
But delays at Google led the manufacturers to miss this year's 
holiday season.

Google has notched a big win with its Android software for 
smartphones. But, again, phone and computer makers have been forced 
to push back their plans to release tablets based on a refined 
version of the software, leaving Apple's iPad as the tablet king this 
Christmas.

Now similar problems may be plaguing Google TV. With its push to 
improve the lackluster software, Google, like so many companies 
before it, appears to be confronting the technical challenges that 
have kept Web TV from becoming mainstream.

...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/technology/20google.html

 
 
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