Re:Google Stopping Coding Competitions
by whatshisface on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @02:14PM
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>Ads are doing better than ever, Android is holding steady worldwide, Maps has a huge moat that Apple has yet to overcome (in over a decade), nobody really complains about Google Search except us nerds.
What you've just described are the conditions that, time and time again, have persuaded companies to cut R&D spending and set the stage for being overtaken in a couple decades.
(Before you ask "why can't they just re-increase spending when threatened," think about whether, after going 20 years without an engineering culture in management, whether they would try to jump on a real emerging technology or a buzzword technology when the time came.)
What you've just described are the conditions that, time and time again, have persuaded companies to cut R&D spending and set the stage for being overtaken in a couple decades.
(Before you ask "why can't they just re-increase spending when threatened," think about whether, after going 20 years without an engineering culture in management, whether they would try to jump on a real emerging technology or a buzzword technology when the time came.)