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This is Google we are talking about. The company that does “moon shots” that are 20 years away but sells them off a few years later. They can’t focus on anythin
by birdyrooster 5y ago
This is Google we are talking about. The company that does “moon shots” that are 20 years away but sells them off a few years later. They can’t focus on anything long term that doesn’t feed AdSense to the degree YouTube, Search, Maps and Gmail do. Stadia isn’t doing that and it will be gone in a couple years.
- enos_feedler 5y agoHave you even read a Google earnings report in the last couple years? Or listened to an earnings call? Your failure to mention Google Cloud just shows how aging your perspective of the company is.
- birdyrooster 5y agoTotally forgot to mention GCP. I meant to get into GCP in this thread with regard to how it's part of Google's pathology. They have a hammer and everything looks like a nail ala Stadia even when the industry is pushing compute for experiences to the edge, Google is always looking to centralize.
- birdyrooster 5y agoGoogle Cloud was created to compete with AWS which already proved the market. Stadia has no such analogy, it was a gamble.
- enos_feedler 5y agoMy point is that Stadia is a critical layer on top of the cloud platforms. If cloud is a proven market, then accessing gaming chips for playing games is also a proven market. I think the ditching of their internal game studio is a sign of strength, not weakness, in this case.