Re:What's going on with Google robotics?
by melted on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @11:11PM
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I'm confused. Why would anyone expect that an advertising company would actually have a clue what they want to do with robotics? I think the main idea with acquisitions in robotics space was to keep Andy around, and to create yet another PR bubble, much like with Glass or autonomous cars. But then Andy left and it turned out that shit's hard. Whoop dee do. Time to switch to some other distraction.
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Crazy! It would be like a PayPal founder believing he'd have a clue about how to build an electric car, or a rocket ship.
Re:What's going on with Google robotics?
by melted on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @12:29AM
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No, it would be like expecting PayPal to build a spaceship or an electric car.
Re:What's going on with Google robotics?
by raldi on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @12:44AM
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I see -- it would be like if the same parent company thought it could successfully run, say, GEICO, Dairy Queen, and Fruit of the Loom.
Re:What's going on with Google robotics?
by melted on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @02:49AM
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You're reaching, but I'll oblige. It'd be like Berkshire Hathaway told Dairy Queen or GEICO to build a commercially viable robot.
Google basically runs two things profitably: Ads and Android (the latter in part because of ads). Neither of which makes anything hardware related. All phones are made by other companies, and when they tried to run one, they were losing $700M/yr.
Re:What's going on with Google robotics?
by raldi on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @09:03AM
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Come on. That's like saying Apple only runs one thing profitably, consumer electronics. YouTube is wildly different from Google Fiber which is nothing like the Play store, which is nothing like web search.