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“The world is looking for their Android,” Prince says. “We’re the Android of cloud services.” I can't tell if this is inane exec-speak or if this means they re
by cagenut 11y ago
“The world is looking for their Android,” Prince says. “We’re the Android of cloud services.”
I can't tell if this is inane exec-speak or if this means they really intend to branch out into stuff like a dropbox/gdrive storage product and a compute/ec2 like service.
full disclosure: I start work for a competitor at the end of the month
- tlianza 11y agoI think it's more like they're part of the "Android ecosystem" where you have a lot of choice around fundamental components, as compared to the iOS ecosystem. I get your point that Android, broadly, is a competitor to Apple. But, I think he's not just highlighting that the world needs an Amazon alternative (it has several). I think he's saying the world needs a more open ecosystem where they have the choice of best-of-breed components from different companies. And, in that world, you might be able to pick the world's best compute stack from one company, use Cloudflare as the world's best edge/networking stack, etc.
- pjbrunet 11y agoI read it as: Android is the world leader and free, whereas Windows & Apple are expensive, US-centric platforms.