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Re:Wheels up for Waymo as we expand our 24/7 rider-only terr... by scarface74 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:52PM (#34042143)
YouTube is thought to only break even as far as profits.

Android makes very little money in the grand scheme of things. It came out during the Oracle trial that Android only had made $17 billion between 2011-2017. On the other hand, they pay Apple $18B+ to be the default search engine on iOS devices. Apple makes far more from Google paying them in mobile than Google makes from Android.

GCP is still losing money.

Google has no successful profitable business besides advertising and has the focus of a crack addles flea.

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Re:Wheels up for Waymo as we expand our 24/7 rider-only terr... by kranke155 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:39PM (#34046518)
If Waymo works this will all sound like gibberish in 5 years. They will have successfully revolutionised the entire world’s transportation, or started the revolution.

We also forget DeepMind which is run as an independent company but I believe is Google owned.

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Re:Wheels up for Waymo as we expand our 24/7 rider-only terr... by scarface74 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @11:45PM (#34048597)
Right, like all of Google’s other profitable businesses not related to search over the past two decades.

But I’m sure they will get right this time.

Did I mention Google Fiber? They literally abandoned cities and left streets in ruins.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...

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