> They've decided to make a PC product, which I wouldn't say is inferior to anything else if you're the kind of person who is into PC culture. I'm not. > Ther

> They've decided to make a PC product, which I wouldn't say is inferior to anything else if you're the kind of person who is into PC culture. I'm not. > There might be some difficult internal politics to work through, but there is no way Google is hamstrung forever by this. The technical prowess is irrelevant. Whichever of the companies in the AI race excises their PC demons will actually ship useful things and break ahead. The talent will follow the market. Google might very well be hamstrung forever by this and other internal politics. This dynamic has played out over and over again. See also: IBM, Xerox, HP, Nokia. 'etc.