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Its pretty obvious, serving the customer is not in googles DNA, it never has and never will be. This is core to why all their consumer products have fallen flat
by subsubzero 5y ago
Its pretty obvious, serving the customer is not in googles DNA, it never has and never will be. This is core to why all their consumer products have fallen flat on their face. Think google glasses, google delivery, etc
Given that I expect to never see waymo brand cars shuttling people around, most likely they will license out the tech to companies who deal with customers or to the car companies themselves.
- whimsicalism 5y ago? It's core customers - businesses who are looking to advertise - are very well served by Google.
- enos_feedler 5y agoYes! If you factor in businesses running ads, and even Google search usage for work-related tasks, you could argue that Google is skewed B2B. In the long run, I think MS and Google have the same goal: serve businesses a buffet of services they need to operate: productivity, cloud, ads.
- ra7 5y ago> Given that I expect to never see waymo brand cars shuttling people around, most likely they will license out the tech to companies who deal with customers or to the car companies themselves. I'm a big supporter of what Waymo is doing, but I've always thought this is real end game for them precisely because of the reasons you mentioned. Google is incredibly shy of anything that involves physical support and running a robotaxi service requires a lot of it along with operations/logistics. They are no Amazon.