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>They both have single-points-of-failure in their businesses. Non-advertising revenue from Google combined with revenue from Verily and the other Alphabet comp

>They both have single-points-of-failure in their businesses. Non-advertising revenue from Google combined with revenue from Verily and the other Alphabet companies was $15.5 billion in 2017, accounting for about 14 percent of total revenue, compared to $10.9 billion, or 12 percent, in 2016. >They both have single-points-of-failure in their businesses. I predict this single point is going to fail catastrophically in the surprisingly-near future. Strange how your predictions of catastrophic failure, in the near future, somehow missed all of the other companies that have single-points-of-failure in their businesses.

staunch 9y ago
1. Are you suggesting that Google doesn't have a SPOF? All of their other businesses, which cost hundreds of billions investment to create, generate just ~$15 billion/year in revenue. They will never be ROI positive and if they lost 76% of revenue the company would likely collapse. 2. What other central companies have at-risk anti-technology SPOF business models? Google/Facebook will likely take down the entire internet advertising industry when they fail. What else is like this?
- bitmapbrother 9y ago
  I very much doubt that Google's other businesses "cost hundreds of billions [of] investment to create". Google also has more than 100+ billion in the bank so they could easily sustain their operations and scale back if that SPOF ever happened. Additionally, they would focus on maximizing their other revenue steams such as Android, Google Cloud Platform, Nest, Waymo, Verily Life Sciences, DeepMind, GV, CapitalG. >What other central companies have at-risk anti-technology SPOF business models? Any other business in which the majority of their profits are dependent on a single revenue stream. It's only the true conglomerates, like Samsung, that could easily react to a SPOF because of how their diversified portfolio of businesses are and non reliant on one core business for their annual revenue.
jacksmith21006 9y ago
The difference is ads is a business model versus a product. So say a TV channel only had one popular that would be a concentration. Google not only has search but also has YouTube and I would guess others also contributing.

staunch 9y ago

1. Are you suggesting that Google doesn't have a SPOF? All of their other businesses, which cost hundreds of billions investment to create, generate just ~$15 billion/year in revenue. They will never be ROI positive and if they lost 76% of revenue the company would likely collapse. 2. What other central companies have at-risk anti-technology SPOF business models? Google/Facebook will likely take down the entire internet advertising industry when they fail. What else is like this?

bitmapbrother 9y ago
I very much doubt that Google's other businesses "cost hundreds of billions [of] investment to create". Google also has more than 100+ billion in the bank so they could easily sustain their operations and scale back if that SPOF ever happened. Additionally, they would focus on maximizing their other revenue steams such as Android, Google Cloud Platform, Nest, Waymo, Verily Life Sciences, DeepMind, GV, CapitalG. >What other central companies have at-risk anti-technology SPOF business models? Any other business in which the majority of their profits are dependent on a single revenue stream. It's only the true conglomerates, like Samsung, that could easily react to a SPOF because of how their diversified portfolio of businesses are and non reliant on one core business for their annual revenue.

jacksmith21006 9y ago

The difference is ads is a business model versus a product. So say a TV channel only had one popular that would be a concentration. Google not only has search but also has YouTube and I would guess others also contributing.