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> could represent a significant revenue stream If it does not, we should, like other Google offerings, expect it to be cut. Google has a strict internal busine
by chippy 10y ago
> could represent a significant revenue stream
If it does not, we should, like other Google offerings, expect it to be cut. Google has a strict internal business case (new from around 2010 or so) - what they do now has to make money, it's no longer enough to be getting more people to use the internet, or increase use in the brand, the services has to make business sense.
Let's hope it is used and profitable, eh.
- daveguy 10y ago> what they do now has to make money That's a fair concern. However, as of 2015 they already have between 3 and 5 % of the cloud market [0][1]. It is likely they are already profitable with the usage they have (cloud is pretty high margin). There have been very few google products that were officially taken out of beta. Google Search and Google Mail are two of those. True, Google has a terrible reputation for dumping small dev and consumer facing products. Their cloud offerings are a completely different category. Not least of which, because they have no free tier -- only free trial. Anyone who continues to use Google Cloud products is paying for them. [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topple-in-the-cloud-and-where-everybody-else-falls-2015-10 http://www.businessinsider.com/why-amazon-is-so-hard-to-topp... [1] http://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/22/amazon-aws-google-cloud-microsoft-azure/ http://dazeinfo.com/2015/05/22/amazon-aws-google-cloud-micro...