Google's business model

Posted Jan 17, 2026 12:10 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Google's business model by smurf
Parent article: A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9 (Project Zero)

> Nobody disputes that – but silly reasons like not-quite-adherence to some spec or other never stopped people from making semi-compliant gadgets. Like, ever.

Sure. But when that happens they get to keep the pieces when things inevitably break.

And deliberately seeking out something that intentionally non-spec compliant tends to not go well.

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Google's business model

Posted Jan 17, 2026 13:05 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

The device in question was a Garmin Satnav, which took SDSC cards. When the map data went over 2GB you were supposed to use a 4GB card ...

Not so bad in that they said the largest card my Father-in-law's Olympus would support was 128MB, I wanted to put a bigger one in, and it clearly could not address all the available memory. Quite why they limited the camera (or card, I think it was an MMC) to 128MB I don't know.

Nowadays, of course, capacity is so huge it's hard to fill up a chip (my DSLR has 100GB, which it tells me is enough for 1100 photos - I can't see me getting through that in a day out ...) but back then I wanted to make sure their cameras had a decent amount of storage ...

Cheers,
Wol