I'm much more willing to believe that their new business model is driven by a small Google "tax". It's like Amazon's strategy of sitting on top of online commer

I'm much more willing to believe that their new business model is driven by a small Google "tax". It's like Amazon's strategy of sitting on top of online commerce and charging a small fee to make those transactions more efficient (more profitable for both the buyer and seller). Google's ideal world is where you want to use google everything to carry out every transaction. In that world Google Glass, autonomous vehicles, AI, anything that makes commerce more efficient and profitable would benefit google. They want to sit on top of everything rather than just internet white space.