As the saying goes: yeah, no. Sure, Google's less-loved consumer-facing products and minor dev stuff tend to die various kinds of sad deaths. But they don't m

As the saying goes: yeah, no. Sure, Google's less-loved consumer-facing products and minor dev stuff tend to die various kinds of sad deaths. But they don't make much money. Not compared to the Mississippi of Money that is advertising. But let's remember: most of the money in the world isn't flowing from consumers to businesses. It sure looks that way, because many of the largest companies in the world make their money selling to consumers. But it's an illusion. Most of the money sloshing around is in the structure of production: the vast web of inputs, transformations and services that fan in until it gets to you presenting a wad of the hard-earned. These days the structure of production needs information to make it work. And you need some sort of Turing machine to do stuff with and to that information. Other machines to acquire, retrieve and store it. Still other machines to make all the others go. And someone clever to run all these things. Now that it's simple to take chunks of information work and just magically send it somewhere, why the hell would you do something as capitally, criminally inefficient as buy super-rapidly depreciating atoms? Squirting electrons down a wire is fantastically better business. The worldwide economy is measured in the many trillions. Some major, majority fraction of that economy is the structure of production. Some not-insubstantial percentage of the structure of production is in managing and transforming information. Total addressable market is billions, heaped on billions, with a side serving of deep-fried billions. If Google abandon GCP, the shareholders won't need to have voting control to exact vengeance. They'll bodily drag execs into the street and beat them to death with rolled-up Amazon boxes.