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Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by bitmapbrother on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:18PM (#15012453)
Privacy focused? Oh, you mean how they pivoted when their Ad business failed.
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Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by whipoodle on Monday August 14, 2017 @04:26PM (#15012527)
Interesting description of Apple's business!
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Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by benzoate on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @05:13AM (#15016600)
Didn't their ad business fail because they refused to share/collect as much user data, and hence advertisers were less willing to spend on their platform?
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Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by bitmapbrother on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:21AM (#15034000)
Not to my recollection. They exited the Ad business because it was a financial failure. Do you really think Apple would have exited a business if they were on track to make Google like revenue from it? No way - the shareholders would have raided the building.
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Re:Chris Lattner Joins Google Brain by tatoalo on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:28AM (#15015992)
My comment was ironic...the "IMHO" was there for avoiding Apple fanboy.
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