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Re:Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai by r00fus on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:55PM (#20286798)
Well, Youtube is a stark counterpoint. Google today without Youtube is unthinkable. While I despise the company, Doubleclick also radically changed Google and was probably what changed Google into the advertising giant they are now.

Apple is just more careful on their acquisitions.

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Re:Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai by sprafa on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @07:05PM (#20290198)
True, particularly about double click, but is YouTube really a well managed acquisition?

It seems to be a victim of Google’s schizo approach to product in the sense that every 12 months it seems to be following a new strategy or launching a new product to replace an older one Id never used anyway. Their whole YouTube Red stuff, and YouTube Music, I have no idea what the long term strategy of this company is. Outside of ads of course.

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Re:Apple buys autonomous driving company Drive.ai by js2 on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @01:09PM (#20286937)
> Doubleclick also radically changed Google

And on the other side of ads, Google Analytics started as Urchin.

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