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This was true until Google started making phones and tablets and opened the Google Play store and Google Apps for business and ... Actually wait.... Google has
by bicknergseng 14y ago
This was true until Google started making phones and tablets and opened the Google Play store and Google Apps for business and ...
Actually wait.... Google has been "making [and selling] content] for a while. Their main business might still be search advertising, but that doesn't mean that rerouting the pipes won't benefit them and absolutely destroy others.
- jaggederest 14y agoWhat about a phone is content? Content is something you spend time watching, or playing - nothing google sells is content, it's all service. All of their content is derived from other people, and they enable content creation on a grand scale. With the exception of a few google blogs and videos, it's all a way to get where you're going, not a thing in itself. The day there's a google studios, or google game production, or google music labels, they'll be creating content.
- zachkatz 14y agoWell, Google did buy Next New Nextworks to produce content for Youtube: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-03-07/tech/30071069_1_google-today-incubator-purchase http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-03-07/tech/30071069...
- bicknergseng 14y agoA phone is not a service, it's a good and a platform for serving more goods/content in the form of the Google Play store. What about YouTube or Maps or Apps? YouTube produces it's own content, as does Google Maps. Again, Google today is not Google c. 2002. They produce massive amounts of content and goods, and being able to control the full distribution pipeline for said content and goods could end up being a significant anti-trust issue.
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