Re:Microsoft’s Very Good Day
by craigvn on Thursday October 08, 2015 @08:03AM
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While this is true similar practices around patents and technology is undertaken by every large tech company. Why do you think Google are so interested in self driving cars? Not because they want to be the next Toyota but because they want to own all technology and patents behind it which they will happily let Toyota use for a small (ok very large) fee.
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Actually , i do think Google wants to be either the next toyota or UBER. Just licensing patents is leaving huge amounts of money on the table.
It's leaving a huge amount of money on the table generated by activities unrelated to Google's expertise, such as producing the actual car. Google does a lot of things, but I'm pretty sure running a car factory is not one of their fields of expertise.