Eric Schmidt

By summer 2012, the majority of televisions sold in stores will have Google TV embedded.

“by the summer of 2012 .... the majority of the televisions that you see in the television stores here will have Google TV embedded in it”

Said on

7 December 2011 · LeWeb 2011 conference, Paris (then Google executive chairman); a forecast of TV makers' adoption, not of Google's own release plans

Source

Eric Schmidt Claims Google TV Will Somehow Be On The Majority Of Televisions By Summer 2012 · Android Police

Should come true

Sep 2012

How sure they sounded

will (stated as fact)

Categories

Technology

Importance

2 of 5 · Concerns smart-TV platform adoption in the consumer electronics industry.

Outcome

Inaccurate

Google TV shipped on only a handful of models (Sony, LG, Vizio and set-top boxes) in 2012, nowhere near a majority of TVs in stores, and the platform was discontinued in 2014 and replaced by Android TV.

Evidence:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV_(operating_system)