Re:Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Ne...
by sumtechguy on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @03:03PM
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This is true but long term Google can not sustain that. MS did the same in the 90s. Google is failing to execute on many 'big ideas'. Not because of a shortage of talent. But because of a shortage of follow through and nothing moves the needle anymore. That means any new product that has a shot of being interesting (say 1%) has to produce 1.6 billion pretty quickly. There are very few new businesses that start at that position. MS should have owned the cell market. Not for a lack of trying or talent. But they kept changing positions and tech stacks every few months. They lacked the will to do it. Google is in a similar position now with most of its projects outside of its 'core' ideas. What happens, fairly quickly, is the talent figures out that the company does not really value their ideas. They move out of the company and do something else.
There's plenty of antitrust fodder already with their stranglehold over the web and the behavior they've taken to protect their search/ad business. But if they're hiring people away in cutting edge areas of research simply to destroy startups, that's abhorrent. That means they're pouring their obscene wealth from advertising into unrelated fields in order to dominate them.
Monopoly.