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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by velohx on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:25PM (#11725000)
This is sarcasm, right? Here's some more equivalent sarcasm: Gmail and Google Search could discontinue easily.
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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by toomuchtodo on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:40PM (#11725154)
Search, hardly. But Gmail? What happens when Google decides they're not monetizing Gmail sufficiently and force everyone to Inbox? What then!
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Re:Firebase expands to become a unified app platform by unclebucknasty on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @11:26PM (#11727741)
You're comparing their mature businesses to their nascent cloud business. Their market share in the latter is still a fraction of the leaders'. It's very possible that Google may "lose the cloud".
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