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Jan 20, 2022G2-002Moving target

Google was said to hope to ship Project Iris in 2024

Alex Heath reported that Google hoped to ship Project Iris in 2024.

Alex Heath reported that Google hoped to ship Project Iris in 2024.

How to read this record

  1. What was reportedAlex Heath reported that Google hoped to ship Project Iris in 2024.
  2. Who said it, and whenAlex Heath reported it on Jan 20, 2022 in The Verge.
  3. What happened, and whenWe have not confirmed when Project Iris was announced.
  4. The verdict, and whyMoving targetThis was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.Why: The Verge reported from two people familiar with Project Iris that Google hoped to ship it in 2024 and stressed that the target was aspirational; Business Insider reported in June 2023 that Google had shelved Iris earlier that year. The internal plan existed and was later abandoned. What the company published
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Partly right
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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
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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 Iris
Read it at The Verge

Who reported it

Alex Heath · Journalist

27 reports in the Reporting Record. Of the 11 we have checked, 10 held up. The other 16 are not part of that number: 3 moving target, 11 never settled, 2 not comparable.

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Questions about this report

Did this Project Iris report turn out to be true?
Moving target. This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it. The Verge reported from two people familiar with Project Iris that Google hoped to ship it in 2024 and stressed that the target was aspirational; Business Insider reported in June 2023 that Google had shelved Iris earlier that year. The internal plan existed and was later abandoned.
Who reported it first?
Alex Heath reported it on Jan 20, 2022 in The Verge.