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I'm confused. Why would anyone expect that an advertising company would actually have a clue what they want to do with robotics? I think the main idea with acqu
by melted 11y ago
I'm confused. Why would anyone expect that an advertising company would actually have a clue what they want to do with robotics? I think the main idea with acquisitions in robotics space was to keep Andy around, and to create yet another PR bubble, much like with Glass or autonomous cars. But then Andy left and it turned out that shit's hard. Whoop dee do. Time to switch to some other distraction.
- raldi 11y agoCrazy! It would be like a PayPal founder believing he'd have a clue about how to build an electric car, or a rocket ship.
- melted 11y agoNo, it would be like expecting PayPal to build a spaceship or an electric car.
- raldi 11y agoI see -- it would be like if the same parent company thought it could successfully run, say, GEICO, Dairy Queen, and Fruit of the Loom.
- melted 11y agoYou're reaching, but I'll oblige. It'd be like Berkshire Hathaway told Dairy Queen or GEICO to build a commercially viable robot. Google basically runs two things profitably: Ads and Android (the latter in part because of ads). Neither of which makes anything hardware related. All phones are made by other companies, and when they tried to run one, they were losing $700M/yr.
- raldi 11y agoCome on. That's like saying Apple only runs one thing profitably, consumer electronics. YouTube is wildly different from Google Fiber which is nothing like the Play store, which is nothing like web search.