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I'm speed-reading my way through the docs right now, and I just had a realization... I'm betting that a huge driving force for them to release something like th
by icey 19y ago
I'm speed-reading my way through the docs right now, and I just had a realization... I'm betting that a huge driving force for them to release something like this is to lower the cost of acquisitions. They are opening up a lot of the tech that (AFAIK) is being used on some of their apps internally.
It would be vastly easier for them to get at the creamy nougat filling of acquired startups if said startups were already using the google pixie dust.
- slapshot 19y agoNot just "easier to get at" but also "locked in so M'soft and Yahoo! can't as easily buy them."
- snorkel 19y agoThere seems to have been the same level of hype over Facebook's apps and I haven't seen many Facebook app startups getting acquired by Facebook. Granted the Google App Engine is whole other level of app hosting but compared to the scale of Google could any single Google App Engine app grow large enough to worth acquisition by Google? The best offer an App Engine startup may get from Google is maybe a job offer and nothing more.