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Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT by lumost on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:17PM (#34484267)
It’s tricky - companies with high margin businesses are loath to scale into low margin businesses. It makes the firm look more like a commodity than it is. Meanwhile startups in large enterprises are often desperate to grow revenue to show relevance.. leading to low margins.
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Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT by steveBK123 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @08:37PM (#34484397)
It just seems like they wasted their lead, margin and talent.

Bell Labs produced a lot of interesting stuff with their monopoly profits. Apple R&D seems to come up with lots of interesting new product lines.

GOOG bought Nest and managed to become an also-ran in home automation.

GOOG other bets might produce something with Waymo, but when.. all this autonomous car stuff is continuously 5 more years, every year. That's about the closest they've come so far, no?

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Re:Google is freaking out about ChatGPT by AlbertCory on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:10AM (#34485734)
Just give it time, Steve. 5 more years should be about right :)
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