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> On HN of all places, I'm surprised to see that the guy throwing his weight around to GET RID of proprietary codecs is being portrayed as the bad guy. When it
by totalZero 5y ago
> On HN of all places, I'm surprised to see that the guy throwing his weight around to GET RID of proprietary codecs is being portrayed as the bad guy.
When it comes to these gluttonous Big Tech companies, I tend to err on the side of the smaller guy. Your comment doesn't capture that dimension of the conflict.
- cmeacham98 5y agoWhy? Roku had over $1 billion in revune in 2019 (couldn't find 2020 data) - they're massive. While Google is obviously bigger comparing their relative sizes doesn't seem to make much sense.
- totalZero 5y agoAssuming this is a serious question: Roku net income was $67m for the Dec quarter versus Google at $15.2b. Two hundred Rokus still do not a Google make. And Google did even better ($17.9b) in the most recent quarter. Phrased differently, Google will probably earn more profit this year than Roku's entire market cap.
- kbelder 5y agoOr, Google will make more profit this week than Roku did over the last couple years.