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Any implications for end-users, or notable improvements from an engineering standpoint?

• noir_lord 5y ago
  > Any implications for end-users For end users competing against them yes, they and the other "We run the internet's biggest sites and are also a cloud provider" providers are leveraging dominance in one area to fund and build technology that you simply can't compete with. From their point of view an entirely rational thing to do (and hardly new) but it does create an un-level playing field when you use money from one area to enter and dominate a market in another. For anyone familiar this has all the hallmarks of the standard oil days when an oil company took over large swathes of the transport industry and charged differential rates based on local competition, selling at a loss where their was competition.