Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline

Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by blackguardx on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:46PM (#13134137)

I'm an electrical engineer and know people who were on the first iPhone team. I think it was about as close to 0 to 1 as you get in a big company like that.

I worked for a major RF test and measurement company when the first iPhone came out and everyone was blown away that a company could design and tool up production for a cell phone without tipping anyone off in the industry.

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by ravitation on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:07PM (#13134321)

Compare Apple, a consumer electronics company, building a phone to Google, an ad tech company, building a self driving car.

One seems to leverage the core competencies of an organization better than the other... One seems closer to starting from 0...

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by weaksauce on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:49PM (#13134612)

I mean, google is not quite going from 0 to 1 there. it's a machine learning problem and google has some of the brightest machine learning people out there already working on search.

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by Locke1689 on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:42PM (#13134564)

That's just because you don't understand Google.

It was a ML company going from building ML for the internet to building ML for a car.

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Re:Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About F... by blackguardx on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:55PM (#13134653)

Google hired the team that won the Darpa Grand Challenge.

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