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Interesting. Did you glance at the latest Google I/O? There are a ton of things on the horizon that will continue to keep Google very relevant and generate mone
by dwoot 8y ago
Interesting. Did you glance at the latest Google I/O? There are a ton of things on the horizon that will continue to keep Google very relevant and generate money. For one, I'd like to point out Waymo. Autonomous transport seems like a pretty big business. From my perspective, Google has the lead in AI right now and it shows in all the products that they're beginning to push out.
A lot of engineers work on ads teams. I heard it once before, but search is Google's core. Without search, their ad-serving isn't very profitable. Everything else is a moat around it - Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Chrome. Most media companies are built around the advertising model.
I can't say that you're wrong. Enterprise software does generate a lot of revenue and Microsoft does support it fairly well. Microsoft has also had some wins as of late.
A lot of Google's revenue comes from ads, but I wouldn't label it a "single horse". It's really a stable of horses if you're counting YouTube #2 most visited site and the other revenues its generating from it's G Suite, people paying for Drive, cloud services, etc.
I may be blinded by my bias toward Google products, but it's also crazy that I don't use a single Microsoft product at the moment -- I don't boot my old PC with Windows. I don't own an X-Box. I don't own a Surface. I don't use Word or any of the Office software anymore. I don't use Azure or VS Code as my editor as a software engineer. However, I do know a lot of .NET developers.
- kamaal 8y ago>>Enterprise software does generate a lot of revenue Enterprise is just the tip of the iceberg. Almost anybody who can't afford to buy Apple's expensive products(Which is like everybody) has to buy Microsoft. Also with the latest hardware goof ups, the top end customers could be soon going to Microsoft.