> gigantic money loser That's not the right metric to use. Google has a long history of using software and services as a weapon to prevent competitors from ent

> gigantic money loser That's not the right metric to use. Google has a long history of using software and services as a weapon to prevent competitors from entering a market, or to control a market even if it's not immediately/directly profitable. Once it's no more useful it's suddenly dropped, e.g. Google Reader. Oh, hello golang!