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Re:Google opens access to its speech recognition API by jamesdwilson on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:23PM (#11348382)
Has Google sued many of their smaller competitors out of business?
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Re:Google opens access to its speech recognition API by TuringNYC on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @08:49PM (#11349704)
No, and they dont need to. They have too many other advantages -- low customer acquisition cost via already-present cloud customers, economies of scale, ease of hiring the best talent, natural integrations via their android platform...who needs nastiness when you have all these amazing benefits!
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Re:Google opens access to its speech recognition API by grahamburger on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:42PM (#11348506)
Isn't Google's strategy typically to just start offering the same services as their smaller competitors but for free and then let them starve? ... Kind of like what's probably happening here? Sounds like this is terrible news for Nuance, for example.
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Re:Google opens access to its speech recognition API by nl on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:16PM (#11348711)
No
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