Google in, Google out

Re:Google in, Google out by ocdtrekkie on Monday May 22, 2017 @09:46AM (#14393488)

Microsoft's scale and early dominance gives them incredible staying power. Apple, at this point, too. Huge companies have the money to coast by in mediocrity for years, and can simply buy assets to fill in gaps in their product line.

Don't have a chat app? Buy one. Don't have machine learning yet? Buy a couple of those too.

Even if a company like Google lost most of it's income overnight, it could coast for years on pure cash reserves. The amount of money these big tech behemoths have to work with is incredible. As long as they strike gold once or twice every several years, they'll be fine.

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Re:Google in, Google out by scholia on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:16PM (#14394787)

> Huge companies have the money to coast by in mediocrity for years, and can simply buy assets to fill in gaps in their product line.

True, though IBM may now have spent too long coasting by in mediocrity...

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Re:Google in, Google out by ocdtrekkie on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:36PM (#14394964)

I don't know, Watson is actually one of the most publicly-recognized names in the AI game. If they leverage that correctly, there's a lot of opportunities there.

Especially since most people who want to use AI would view Google as a competitor because of the number of services it operates, and IBM is more likely to support someone's desire for on-premises solutions. (The on-site enterprise solutions Google had for search and Earth, for comparison, have been recently discontinued.)

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Re:Google in, Google out by scholia on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:50PM (#14395063)

Watson is actually the most heavily-advertized name in the AI game. It's invisible in IBM's financial results, which have now shown declines in turnover for 20 quarters in a row.

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