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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by pembrook on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:21PM (#22332676)
In logic class we called that a red herring fallacy. Google Cloud isn't in the business of selling $1 bills for 90 cents.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by scarface74 on Friday February 14, 2020 @09:31PM (#22332731)
The “fallacy” is offering evidence of success by just bringing up revenue. I made no claims on whether GCP is profitable or not.
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Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group by qeqeqeqe on Saturday February 15, 2020 @12:54AM (#22333565)
But we do know AWS's operating margin which is 29%. Spending a little to gain market share in a high margin business seems sound to me.
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