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Pogue: The Nexus Q Is Baffling

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I'm glad Google tried Made in the Usa. Bucking the trends, that's how true innovators like Apple become great. They may have made a mistake in the price, but that's ok, they'll learn.
 
Red Storm said:
Nah if the price goes down and the community gets normal Android working on it (which I fully expect them to) then it will function as a real nice HTPC.
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The question is, why didn't Google ship it with AOSP out of the box? And how do you control it?

I suppose those are things someone will eventually figure out, but I don't see why it falls on the homebrew community to make this device useful. It's different with phones - they're perfectly usable out of the box and custom roms only serve to bring new features and customization. But this thing will be almost totally useless unless you mess with it.

And if it launches at $300 no one will buy it, hence no community support.
 
The thing is, even at $100, I still wouldn't buy it. It's far too crippled to be of any use.

Maybe they should take out the amplifier, and add some usability to the thing. Then it might actually have a small chance of succeeding.
 
So far I see most of the limitations are software based which can be improved. Hopefully this thing will be hacked like nuts opening up more possibilities.
Price is a bit high but still within reach. Not sure about its future but hope that it sticks out.
 
zoiks said:
So far I see most of the limitations are software based which can be improved. Hopefully this thing will be hacked like nuts opening up more possibilities.
Price is a bit high but still within reach. Not sure about its future but hope that it sticks out.
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Yeah, but selling a bunch of units just to be hacked doesn't really help Google at all.
 
AstroManLuca said:
The question is, why didn't Google ship it with AOSP out of the box? And how do you control it?

I suppose those are things someone will eventually figure out, but I don't see why it falls on the homebrew community to make this device useful. It's different with phones - they're perfectly usable out of the box and custom roms only serve to bring new features and customization. But this thing will be almost totally useless unless you mess with it.

And if it launches at $300 no one will buy it, hence no community support.
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All of this. The cost of entry on this is way too high considering you need at a minimum the $300 Q and an Android smartphone. Even if you already have the smartphone, the average person wants something that works out of the box. Yes, this technically works out of the box but I'm not seeing lines at Walmart or Best Buy with hordes of people waiting to buy this given its very limited functionality and apparently horrific UI. Only a miniscule percentage of people are going to be willing to root their Q and run something created by the community on it, regardless of how unbelieveably awesome that creation may be.
 
zoiks said:
So far I see most of the limitations are software based which can be improved. Hopefully this thing will be hacked like nuts opening up more possibilities.
Price is a bit high but still within reach. Not sure about its future but hope that it sticks out.
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But what about the device makes you 'hope' it can be hacked? All we know it can do is what Google says it can do. And what Google says it can do is nowhere near worth $300. So short of this thing being developed and sold by Google I can't think of any reason anyone would even consider buying it. What am I missing?
 
Fingolfin269 said:
But what about the device makes you 'hope' it can be hacked? All we know it can do is what Google says it can do. And what Google says it can do is nowhere near worth $300. So short of this thing being developed and sold by Google I can't think of any reason anyone would even consider buying it. What am I missing?
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Google said in the IO conference that the micro USB port was put in to encourage "general hackery." To me that's the one and only thing this device has potentially going for it, because otherwise it is a total failure. Even if fully functional Android gets hacked on, the price seriously needs to drop.

Are any of those "Android on a stick" products out yet? Not the cheap Chinese ones that can't even run the OS well let alone high quality video, but "name brand" ones?
 
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/9/3148043/google-nexus-q-hacked-launcher-apps-netflix-more

Over at the xda-developers forums, kornyone writes that he was able to unlock the device and install a launcher — in this case, CyanogenMod's Trebuchet — which let him access his full catalog of apps. In the post and accompanying video he states that he controlled the device with an external USB keyboard and mouse, and describes Netflix as a particular standout, with the app streaming 1080p video to his television.
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The price is still not right though. 🙁
 
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