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IIRC this came up when Apple tried to buy Dropbox - it was a way to accelerate the building of iCloud Drive. The Files app is essentially Apple's version of Dro
by belfalas 2y ago
IIRC this came up when Apple tried to buy Dropbox - it was a way to accelerate the building of iCloud Drive. The Files app is essentially Apple's version of Dropbox, they make money charging for storage.
From what I recall a MSFT executive made a similar comment to Google that search was not a product (which turned out to be true).
- profsummergig 2y agoHow do we know for certain (certain) that Search is not a product? After all, hasn't Google made billions off of it? If it's not a product, then is it a feature? What is it a feature of? If neither product nor feature, what is it?
- belfalas 2y agoWhat Google has made money on are the ads that show up next to the search results. That's their way of "charging" for search if you like. Similarly for iCloud Drive / Dropbox, what they charge you for is storage, not the ability to look things up. Search is a feature of the index / overall data catalog.
- profsummergig 2y agoFair point. So in this conceptualization, Google's "product" is advertising, and search is a feature that supports advertising.
- belfalas 2y agoThat's right. :)