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How? With 23,000 employees you can staff up a lot of internal projects. And with $30 billion in cash you can afford to acquire a lot of external projects. Why?
by Umalu 16y ago
How? With 23,000 employees you can staff up a lot of internal projects. And with $30 billion in cash you can afford to acquire a lot of external projects.
Why? I think Google has a different philosophy than Apple. Where Apple seems like a design shop with a minimalist ethos (its highly-polished product line famously fits on a conference room table, and it prides itself on what it doesn't do), Google seems more like a start-up incubator hoping, by early release and rapid iteration, to see some of its ideas catch on, knowing all along that many will fail.
- bigohms 16y agoShotgun vs. Sniper. The big thing is that there is digital string tied to all those pellets and bullets flying around.
- jagira 16y agoIf you are talking about jaiku or aardvark, then its fine. But TV, Mobile, Cloud, OS are all mainstream domains and their product ideas in these domains are beyond the incubation stage.
- rhizome 16y agoTo put "23,000" employees into perspective, that's three times more people than EA employs.