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I note that the Google charger has much lower specs than the others. This is what I would expect from them. I worked for a company that was excited about gettin
by perl4ever 7y ago
I note that the Google charger has much lower specs than the others. This is what I would expect from them. I worked for a company that was excited about getting them as a customer for our data processing services. We thought (at least I assume management had high hopes) "wow, Google, they must have tons of data and they will pay us tons of money to deal with it". Nope, they optimized and filtered it to the point where they weren't sending us even 1% of what other customers were. Since they were being charged based on volume.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 7y agoGiven your comment is the top comment, could you clarify if there was any point behind your seemingly irrelevant anecdote other than performing a drive-by dump on Google? Edit: it looks like the user was writing in good faith. I am sorry for over-reacting.
- tinus_hn 7y agoDoesn’t seem like a disparagement, Google comes off as more efficient than expected.
- perl4ever 7y agoTo me, building a charger with a CPU that couldn't make it to the moon is a sign of old-fashioned quality.
- goatsi 7y agoWhy do you see that comment as dumping on Google? I see it as complementing them for taking the time to optimize the hardware rather than just throwing a larger chip at it.
- perl4ever 7y agoObviously Google has a lot of really smart engineers internally, but they still outsource stuff. If you're working in a field that involves data processing, and you are always thinking "this is basically just search, I wonder how Google would do it and why they don't" and then one day you get Google as a customer it realigns your thinking. But then Google turns out to be different from other customers - even when they rely on outside expertise, they seem unusually efficient at it. I think it's interesting not just if you're interested in Google, but to contemplate what the limitations of talent and intelligence are, and how they can be utilized in unexpected ways. And what synergies exist between the people at the very top of a field and those who aren't.
- zaat 7y agoOne is a phone charger, the second is a power bank, the third is a charger for 2 laptops, the fourth is a spacecraft navigation system. Now, if you'll calculate clock speed per W you'll see that Google charger easly beats the Huawei and the Anker.
- ska 7y agoWhat do you know, a data company that knows how to deal with data when it counts.