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Google makes $100k worth of tech training free to every U.S. business
- necovek 5y agoWhy are giveaways always quoted at official sales figures instead of what it costs the giving-away party? Even if the price for the courses was market driven, I am sure plenty of people will only take these courses because they are at no cost to them (iow, they would never have paid anything close to advertised price, so the market has obviously rejected this price). And there is the low, low price of offering these courses after they've already been produced to, obviously, earn some money for their creators. So my complaint is mostly about using monetary values to describe something that has never had any potential to involve that amount of money being moved. Just like movie and music industry claiming losses due to unauthorised copying as if every user would have paid full retail price for the content if they couldn't get it through illegal means.
- aleksiy123 5y agoMy girlfriend is trying to switch careers to UX design and is enjoying doing the Google course. It seems to be fairly high quality touching topics like accessibility and design studies. I do wonder how much employers will value it over a more traditional education.