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I perceive google as a less stable company than most. An equally effective product in any of the areas they occupy, coupled with leadership and commitment to no
by adenozine 4y ago
I perceive google as a less stable company than most. An equally effective product in any of the areas they occupy, coupled with leadership and commitment to not shut the product down after six months isn’t that high of a bar to compete with, should someone else desire.
The real issue is Google is in bed with the CIA and many other agencies and are willing to play ball for all kinds of kickbacks. Competing with their products has a technically feasible angle, but competing their position within the power structure of the non-separated tech and state? Impossible, at this point.
- Waterluvian 4y agoGoogle has lots of useful products that aren’t advertising-based, but they mostly seem to be loss leaders. It seems by their own making, too: they famously shut down everything after a long enough experiment phase of, “how might we leverage this to sell ads?” Something like 80% of Google’s revenue is advertising.
- agumonkey 4y ago> Google has lots of useful products that aren’t advertising-based, but they mostly seem to be loss leaders. which ones ? I lost track of google products in the recent years
- blondin 4y agoyoutube, GCP, android/pixel.
- Waterluvian 4y agoThe stuff they charge for that makes up the rest of their revenue: Cloud, Photos, Drive storage, YouTube Premium, etc.
- agumonkey 4y agoI've been so used to them being builtin android google apps I forgot there were options.