Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by pmart123 on Saturday November 16, 2019 @09:43AM
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In some ways, they could be not only a driver of innovation, but profit off of it. For instance, the initial idea of spearheading Waymo makes sense to me: self-driving cars lead to more search queries and YouTube video views when someone is in transit. They didn’t need to own this technology though and should have sold most of the equity last year to GM or Ford as the OEMs moved into the space. Verily makes more sense to me, but it’s goal should be specialized cloud infrastructure for healthcare.
Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by notatoad on Saturday November 16, 2019 @12:26PM
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I was under the impression that Youtube, G-suite, Cloud Platform, and hardware were all quite profitable. Not to the same degree as ads maybe, but they would all be considered successful if they were standalone businesses.
Calling google just an ad company is ignoring a large amount of reality.
Re:Google cancels TGIF weekly all-hands meetings
by x0x0 on Saturday November 16, 2019 @01:26PM
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Youtube is an ads delivery channel.
afaik, hardware is nowhere near close to profitable once you add the costs of Android. Android is an ads delivery channel and a defense against ios usurping an ads delivery channel.
You have a point about gsuite and gcp.
It's nothing more, until it finds a way to turn a profit on its other ventures. (Just like those startups - realistically, until they turn a profit, they're just in the exploratory stage.)