Google is cutting unnecessary spending across the company (including firing long-term, high-productivity employees) to save money. If Google doesn't want to se

Google is cutting unnecessary spending across the company (including firing long-term, high-productivity employees) to save money. If Google doesn't want to sell trash robots, why fund this (expensive) work? Why not just shut down this division and instead, keep your programmers who work on ads, search, gmail, and other projects that bring money to google?