I think you don't understand what Google intends when they release a new product. Do you want a company to 1) only brew products (with a business model) intern

I think you don't understand what Google intends when they release a new product. Do you want a company to 1) only brew products (with a business model) internally until it is ready to ship, or 2) develop and release lots of things and see what works or not? Google leans towards #2. They don't really care if they can make money off of something, if one of their engineers is interested in something they're allowed to take that risk. They put lots of stuff in the wild and if it doesn't stick then they kill it (or in most cases leave the source to the public - see wave) - or try to make it profitable (look at gapps). Yes, a lot of things coming out of Google die, but that's only because they're putting out lots of things all the time. The day they stop putting out unproven stuff and only release v1.0 products is the day they lose their innovation edge.