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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by nihonium on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:40PM (#22331987)
I'd say they wouldn't shut down everything but may stop adding new features.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by pm90 on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:47PM (#22332046)
At which point they would quickly become obsolete.

Android was a hedge against Apple. GCP is a hedge against AWS. I don't see Google putting the brakes on GCP anytime soon.

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by scarface74 on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:54PM (#22332091)
That didn’t work out very well seeing they are still paying Apple a reported $8 - $12 billion a year to be the default search engine and it came out in the Oracle trial that they only made $23 billion in profit off of Android from its inception until the beginning of the trial.

Apple makes more from Google in mobile than Google makes from Android.

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by joshuamorton on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:04PM (#22333170)
The beginning of the trial was 2010 or so, so if Android earned Google 23B in 5 years, I imagine it's earned multiples of that in the 10 years since.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by scarface74 on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:11PM (#22333204)
This came out in 2016....

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/...

Google's Android operating system has generated revenue of about $31 billion and profit of $22 billion since its release, an Oracle Corp lawyer told a U.S. court hearing the software company's copyright lawsuit against Google.

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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by joshuamorton on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:28PM (#22338771)
So not at the beginning of the trial then.
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