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This seems like mostly PR. Now if Motorola could give us a good usable mesh router for the masses, that would be something with actual impact.
by natch 13y ago
This seems like mostly PR.
Now if Motorola could give us a good usable mesh router for the masses, that would be something with actual impact.
- IBM 13y agoThat seems to be what a lot of Google initiatives are lately. It's like Xerox PARC or Microsoft Research, except Google is taking the step to capitalize on those projects for PR reasons as well. I doubt they will have more success in getting things to market and making a business out of something from their research labs than Microsoft (so that it shifts the revenue mix from 94% ads to anything else). It's important for them to be seen as "innovative" so that the company doesn't become a stodgy old web company like AOL or Yahoo. I believe mainly for recruitment purposes.