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With regards to the self driving car - they seem to take a very serious, risk minimizing approach, far from software-as-a-service. Just compare their slowness

• jacquesm 10y ago
  I think we're looking at different aspects of the whole 'car' thing. I'm talking about selling cars to the general public needing a different mentality than developing that car took in the first place. You need to support that car for the next 2 decades or so with parts and service and I really don't see google as capable of doing that. They have a hard time servicing their phones and tablets that are only a few years old and those are much easier to service than a car would be.
  • w1ntermute 10y ago
    They're probably going to go for a services model (à la Uber), rather than selling the cars.
  • petra 10y ago
    It's not that they are incapable, but they made a mistake when they designed the Android ecosystem(or they didn't have a real choice or time) - and now there are all sort of misalignment of incentives. Also the consumer electronics ecosystem tends towards disposability anyway. But the automotive ecosystem in general is more aligned with long service, it's one of their main income sources. And since Google will most likely partner with some automotive OEM/OEM's, the infrastructure would be there, so it would be easier to align incentives(altough cars-as-a-service makes it a bit different, it may be for the better i think).