Comment by raverbashing
5 years ago
> They do because they can, and because the damage still falls into the "acceptable losses" column.
Yeah, until they piss off someone too big to not give up without a legal/public fight or they piss enough people to make a dent on their bottom line.
I think Google right now is just coasting and the short term evolution is just reactive/siloed plans but no bigger picture of where they want to go (basically just "evolution for promotion points")
Coasting at a rate of 20% Y/Y growth on $10^12.
The big plans are cloud/youtube. Smaller plans are things like Nest, Pixel, Stadia, etc. Web ads will take care of itself indefinitely.
There are always moonshots in flight but it's non-trivial to create a second trillion dollar business out of thin air.
GCP is in big trouble at the moment. Their issues are long standing and endemic, and not shared by their competitors.
They have absolutely been coasting, and the market is only getting more cutthroat.
>until they piss off someone too big to not give up without a legal/public fight
Don't hold your breath. Didn't Google/Youtube recently ban the sitting President of the United States who is also a billonaire and notoriously litigious?
It's been what 10 years of this, already? Even with Facebook gobbling up ad space and Apple gobbling up mobile? How long can a coaster coast?
It’s honestly really sad / pathetic.
Big ass tech company been around for ages saying it’s gonna change the world.
All you do is coast. Like what. Could you imagine going back in time and saying that to folks? That their whole “I’m gonna change the world” routine is going to be given up on?
They already did change the world, and they gave us a new household verb, placing them in maybe the top 10 most successful businesses of the last 100 years?
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