Jan 20, 2022G19-005Moving target
Google was said to hope to ship Project Starline by 2024
Google hoped to ship Project Starline by 2024, alongside Project Iris.
Alex Heath reported in The Verge that Google hoped to ship Project Starline by 2024, alongside Project Iris.
How to read this record
- What was reportedGoogle hoped to ship Project Starline by 2024, alongside Project Iris.
- Who said it, and whenAlex Heath reported it on Jan 20, 2022 in The Verge.
- What happened, and whenWe have not confirmed when Project Starline was announced.
- The verdict, and whyMoving targetThis was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.Why: The internal target was real and Starline did become a product, but not in 2024 — Google announced it commercially with HP in 2025, and Iris never shipped at all.
What do these words mean?
- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
- The company has answered this. We have not finished checking this one.
- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Alex Heath
- We read it in
- The Verge
- Product
- Project Starline