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Google is going to win AI and kill all the other market participants. They have the revenues to support all of this. They spent time learning from all the pla
by echelon 1y ago
Google is going to win AI and kill all the other market participants.
They have the revenues to support all of this.
They spent time learning from all the players and can now fast follow into every market. Now they're fast and nimble and are willing to clone other products wholesale, fork VSCode, etc.
They're developing all of this, meanwhile Pichai is calling it a "bubble" to put a chill on funding (read: competition). It's not like Google is slowing down.
We had a chance to break them up with regulation, and we didn't. Now they're going to kill every market participant.
This isn't healthy. We have an invasive species in the ecology eating up all the diverse, healthy species.
a16z and YC must hate this. It puts a cap on their returns.
As engineers, you should certainly hate this. Google does everything it can to push wages down. Layoffs, offshoring, colluding with competitors. Fewer startups mean fewer rewards for innovation capital and more accrual to the conglomerate taxing the entire internet.
Chrome, Android, Search, Ads, YouTube, Cloud, Workspace, Other Bets, and AI/Deepmind need to be split into separate companies.
Call or email your legislators and ask for antitrust enforcement: https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/ https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/
Demand a Google breakup.
- tayo42 1y ago>They spent time learning from all the players and can now fast follow into every market. Google has never successfully done that? Maybe once?
- poemxo 1y agoFor the wage suppression thing, Google pays their engineers better than say Amazon or Microsoft.
- soperj 1y agoHe was talking about when Apple(under Steve Jobs) colluded with everyone (including Google), but doesn't seem to want to name Apple specifically.
- ryandvm 1y agoHas Google *ever* successfully entered and taken over an existing market?
- QuercusMax 1y agoSearch, back in the late '90s
- darkmarmot 1y agoBesides search, Android kinda killed Nokia and friends for the consumer phone market.
- wiseowise 1y agoiPhone did it, not Android.
- dotancohen 1y agoWith Nokia specifically, I would say that Windows Phone killed it.
- Wowfunhappy 1y agoI truly believe Nokia committed suicide. Meego-Harmattan was really good and early enough that iOS and Android weren’t completely entrenched yet. Or perhaps it would be most correct to say Microsoft assassinated Nokia by sending in Stephen Elop as a double agent?
- dotancohen 1y ago> most correct to say Microsoft assassinated Nokia by sending in Stephen Elop That is exactly how I see it. It also makes perfect sense for all parties involved.
- abirch 1y agoTo be fair, Microsoft killed Nokia.
- Fairburn 1y agoYou ok?
- p3rls 1y ago[dead]
- astrange 1y agoGoogle? Push wages down? Google is mostly known for paying top of market to keep a zoo of engineers whose only output is blog posts about how smart they are because they solved a problem they also caused. (presumably because if they touch the ad system it might break) > a16z and YC must hate this. It puts a cap on their returns. And a16z's main business is investing in financial scams.