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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by acchow on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:18PM (#21422685)
"Google just doesn't know what it's about anymore."

Isn't it an organization optimized for enabling engineers to increase leverage?

That's why things get rewritten into [language/framework du jour].

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Re:Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B by m0zg on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:26PM (#21422747)
I think they do. They're the same thing they've always been: an advertising company. They can only become something else when the majority of their income is derived from something else. Which it currently isn't.
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