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When you are as large a company as google is its easier for accounting purposes to treat internals as just another customer albeit maybe with a discount. Its ve
by a_humean 6y ago
When you are as large a company as google is its easier for accounting purposes to treat internals as just another customer albeit maybe with a discount. Its very common within large corporates to pay other entities within the corporation for services and goods, and even to loan each other money at some interest rate and a repayment agreement.
Its also often how internal cost centers within a company justify their existence, by charging the teams that use their services. I've worked in places where it is not possible to get anyone not on your team to do anything unless you can provide an internal cost code to charge to.
- raxxorrax 6y agoTrue, but I still doubt that ad costs are any factor for a project like this or any Google project. As for Stadia, I play games from time to time but it wouldn't have those I like most and I also like to own media, so it isn't really too interesting. I still think it will be a niche product. Enthusiasts probably won't switch and for the casual market you probably go with a reduced palette of games. Although that might depend on contracts Google can make with developers.