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> Google lacks competence to create any product that’s not adTech. While I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, unfortunately AI is an area where they mig
by hbrn 4y ago
> Google lacks competence to create any product that’s not adTech.
While I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, unfortunately AI is an area where they might succeed.
AI mainly requires:
1. Brilliant researchers/engineers
2. A ton of money
Google is one of the few companies that have abundance of both.
Even if they create just the tech and another company builds a product on top, Google will just acquire them.
- scarface74 4y agoAnd something as messaging apps require neither. Yet Google can’t bring a decent one to market and introduced three incompatible products in one year even though it has the worlds most popular mobile operating system. What profitable products have all of their brilliance abd money brought to the world outside of adTech? It came out in the Oracle trial that Android only made Google a total of around $23 billion in profit total by 2016. All indication is that Google pays more to Apple to be the default search engine on iOS than it makes on Android.
- hbrn 4y agoAgain, I agree they are incapable of creating products. I just think that entry barrier for AI is so much higher that Google has a decent chance. Amazon or Airbnb could be started in a garage by a small group of enthusiasts. Something like ChatGPT (or Chrome) cannot. Hopefully I'm wrong.