Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car

Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by amaranth on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:54PM (#15077931)

Google was a search engine that made money via ads then pivoted into an ad platform that also has a search engine. Android and Chrome are about ensuring they have a seat at the table and don't get pushed out by Apple or Microsoft. The first thing of significance they've done that doesn't fit this is their cloud platform.

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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by euyyn on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:31PM (#15078097)

You could as well have said: That's right, Google's cloud platform is a counterargument.

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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by oblio on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:29AM (#15079337)

Their cloud platform is the same thing: trying to not get pushed out by Amazon and Microsoft.

Google Cloud is about ensuring that those two have competition and can't somehow pull an EEE. Extreme scenario: vast majority of world's online businesses are hosted on AWS and Amazon for whatever reason creates their own AWS ad service and forbids or undercuts Google AdWords for everything hosted on AWS.

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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by thomasjudge on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:31AM (#15080923)

"EEE"?

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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by syockit on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @08:48AM (#15081043)

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

This is the first time I've seen it shortened to an acronym.

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Re:Apple Scales Back Its Ambitions for a Self-Driving Car by oblio on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @05:27PM (#15085331)

I'm pretty sure I'm not the first one to turn it into an acronym: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEE :)

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