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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by de6u99er on Monday February 01, 2021 @08:05PM (#25996324)
If Google didn't make tons of money with ads through it's search engine, the comoany would IMO already be bankrupt.

It's almost as if Google product development stops a v0.8. Maybe time to have the company run by engineers instead of PhD's.

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Re:Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing busin... by mrweasel on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:01AM (#25998747)
Well, ads does afford them the luxury of trying new things, develop new products and revenue sources. Google is just pretty poor at developing new products.

It is actually pretty fascinating, short of cloud computing, and Gsuite, Google doesn't appear to be able to produce products that people will actually pay for. It's not that Google doesn't have success stories, they do, Android for instance. They just don't seem to be able to sell anything.

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