What Google gets wrong about hardware

Quick, what's the coolest product Google has ever unveiled? Oh, and software doesn't count.

Right, exactly — there isn't one. Google's software services are immensely popular and permeate our daily lives. It's hard to imagine the world before Gmail or Google Maps, but on hardware it's usually the same story: a swing and a miss.

Certainly there have been successes. The Chromecast streaming dongle is one of the best products in the category you can buy, and I'd still recommend it today. But for all its virtues as a cheap and efficient video streaming device, the Chromecast isn't something you love like you covet an iPhone 7 or an Amazon Echo. Heck, it's not even really a Kindle. Read more...