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Re:Apple buys a company every three to four weeks by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:55PM (#26259157)
Maybe... Google seems to be taking that strategy but it feels like it leads to some kind of flaw in their thinking around product support.
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Re:Apple buys a company every three to four weeks by Judgmentality on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:59PM (#26259189)
How long has it been since Google had a notable successful acquisition? I'm asking because I can't think of anything recent.
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Re:Apple buys a company every three to four weeks by wongarsu on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:21PM (#26259323)
In 2014 Firebase, Stackdriver and DeepMind (who then made AlphaGo). There's also Waze from 2013. The only thing I could call out after that is Kaggle in 2017. Maybe they will make something out of this year's Fitbit acquisition, but that's a bit early to tell.
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Re:Apple buys a company every three to four weeks by TaylorAlexander on Thursday February 25, 2021 @02:48AM (#26260669)
I guess I wasn’t thinking about acquisitions so much as “you only need one success”. They throw a lot out there I guess hoping some of them will pay off, but it leaves them coming off as scattered to the outside.
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Re:Apple buys a company every three to four weeks by fshbbdssbbgdd on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:13PM (#26259262)
It usually takes a while for an acquisition to be labeled a success, right?
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