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If Google won, it would cannibalize its current ad-driven business and replace it with something that is extremely expensive to run and difficult to make profit
by storus 11mo ago
If Google won, it would cannibalize its current ad-driven business and replace it with something that is extremely expensive to run and difficult to make profit from. A Pyrrhic win essentially.
- reval 11mo agoHardly a Pyrrhic win. When the rest of the market is burning money, whoever burns money the slowest while still remaining competitive will win.
- ezekiel68 11mo agoI mean, focus is a thing that Google has always struggled with. But I kind of doubt that customers who need online marketing (ads) are going to convert en masse to users who rent cloud TPUs instead.
- coppsilgold 11mo agoBut that would happen regardless of who won, better to at least dominate the new paradigm and figure out how to extract value from it. I also suspect that once the value generation is figured out they will cease offering these APIs to anyone, if you had a golden goose would you rent it?
- mr_toad 11mo agoThey could go all dark mirror and inject ads directly into the responses.