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The article claims that Apple is on track to spend around $300 million on GCP storage services this year. With redundancies, server costs, and DC costs, the upf
by DenseComet 5y ago
The article claims that Apple is on track to spend around $300 million on GCP storage services this year. With redundancies, server costs, and DC costs, the upfront price could easily touch 3 to 6 billion, or 10 to 20 years of GCP storage costs.
- mlyle 5y ago> With redundancies, server costs, and DC costs, the upfront price could easily touch 3 to 6 billion, or 10 to 20 years of GCP storage costs. Surely it didn't cost GOOG $6B upfront worth of infrastructure to get $300M of annual revenue from Apple. Yes, there's economies of scale, but I think you overstate the case.
- jfrunyon 5y agoGoogle already has a lot of the infrastructure and labor needed.