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>or hell sells them to another company I don't think anyone at Google has ever (OK, in this millennium) considered an option to sell something. I guess it's a
by ComodoHacker 11y ago
>or hell sells them to another company
I don't think anyone at Google has ever (OK, in this millennium) considered an option to sell something. I guess it's a kind of superstition among top management, a sign of weakness perhaps.
Correct me if I'm wrong and Google has actually sold anything.
- sangnoir 11y ago> Correct me if I'm wrong and Google has actually sold anything. You're wrong, Google sold SketchUp[1] in 2012. SketchUp most likely wasn't hardwired into Google infrastructure (as a desktop app), and had been an acquisition. 1. http://investor.trimble.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=667690 http://investor.trimble.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=6676...
- Dlotan 11y agoThere was Motorola, which was sold to lenovo
- ComodoHacker 11y agoForgot about it, thank you. But it wasn't Google's product.
- hobofan 11y agoThe first thing that comes to mind is the sale of a part of Motorola. That's probably not what you were aiming for since that was not a "product" and Motorola was already bought with splitting the company in mind.
- mathattack 11y agoI suspect it's strategic more than lack of intelligence. When you sell a company, you generally have to sell the people associated with the product. (A code base isn't worth anything on it's own without people who know it, and people selling it)
- rory096 11y agoSketchUp is probably the only software product they've sold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SketchUp