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> Google is the ONE company that you should want to invade a new market Bull Hockey. Google is the LAST company that I want to invade my market. Google has go
by jgeorge 13y ago
> Google is the ONE company that you should want to invade a new market
Bull Hockey. Google is the LAST company that I want to invade my market.
Google has gobs of cash that they can inject into a market to produce a mediocre service and provide it to users for free.
Anyone else competing in that market space now instantly loses any chance for profitability because why would someone pay for your service when Google gives it for free?
Time marches on, and everyone leaves that market space except Google. Google still calls the service "beta" while they try to figure out how to monetize it.
Then, since there's no real way that can monetize that service, they discontinue it, leaving users in the lurch (or at best, migrating them to some other Google service which they can monetize).
You can fanboy Google all you'd like, but they are NOT the benevolent Bringer of All The Interwebs at all times.
Sometimes, injecting stupid amounts of cash into a niche market doesn't always help that market out.