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Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? by margorczynski on Friday March 31, 2023 @07:00AM (#35385152)
Yeah, that's a good question. Considering main revenue sources Google is a marketing/ad company and "tech" is simply an implementation detail.

I think a good litmus test is - if the Internet would die then would a given company be killed off by that. Ford and GS can function without it (it would be much harder but still they did that for decades) but for Google that would be the end.

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Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? by drewcoo on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:03AM (#35386509)
> if the Internet would die then would a given company be killed off by that

That would select for Internet companies, not tech companies. And neither of the two is a strict subset of the other.

> for Google that would be the end

With no Internet, we'd still need comms, and mobile phones (and Android) would seem to be important there. And if that wasn't enough to keep them alive, they'd buy companies to do that.

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