> Given that I expect to never see waymo brand cars shuttling people around, most likely they will license out the tech to companies who deal with customers or to the car companies themselves.
I'm a big supporter of what Waymo is doing, but I've always thought this is real end game for them precisely because of the reasons you mentioned. Google is incredibly shy of anything that involves physical support and running a robotaxi service requires a lot of it along with operations/logistics. They are no Amazon.
Re:Alphabet reports Q1 earnings
by whimsicalism on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:47PM
(#26962937)
? It's core customers - businesses who are looking to advertise - are very well served by Google.
Re:Alphabet reports Q1 earnings
by enos_feedler on Friday April 30, 2021 @04:10PM
(#26998667)
Yes! If you factor in businesses running ads, and even Google search usage for work-related tasks, you could argue that Google is skewed B2B. In the long run, I think MS and Google have the same goal: serve businesses a buffet of services they need to operate: productivity, cloud, ads.
Given that I expect to never see waymo brand cars shuttling people around, most likely they will license out the tech to companies who deal with customers or to the car companies themselves.