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Re:What's going on with Google robotics? by dman on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:41PM (#10541357)
How do you explain the Apple phenomenon in that case? They keep cranking out new product categories in spite of having ample money in the bank.
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Re:What's going on with Google robotics? by tennysonmach on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:52PM (#10541442)
You can build teams that buck the trend, but it requires strict discipline and high-up leadership that's willing to cannibalize existing profit.

Apple doesn't hand new product categories 100$ million, they make them prototype repeatedly until they have something worthy of investing full resources in.

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Re:What's going on with Google robotics? by angersock on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:51PM (#10541432)
Apple is not a useful datapoint for anything. It's a company storied and large enough that you can't really learn anything from it.

Nobody else is like Apple, except Apple.

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Re:What's going on with Google robotics? by dman on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:33PM (#10542681)
I dont agree that there is nothing others can learn from Apple. At one point in time, Sony stood apart much in the same way that Apple does now.
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