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Re:After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest co... by btian on Friday May 30, 2014 @04:03AM (#7820732)
No. If maximizing next quarter/year's profits is Google's primary goal, then the logical thing will be to slash R&D, cut back on benefits, eliminate CapEx, basically what Mark Hurd did to HP.

If you mean Google has to make money to survive in the long term, then that's absolutely true, just as it's true for any other company (Microsoft, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo etc.)

I don't see any evidence that Google is more profit centric than any other company.

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Re:After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest co... by camillomiller on Friday May 30, 2014 @04:08AM (#7820740)
You don't need to be profit centric to insist on a path you think will lead to a greater good. That's enough to scare me, frankly. And, I don't understand why a multimillion public company should be ever trusted just because, well, they say so.

Paving the way to hell have always looked great from the outside, you know, because of all the good intentions put towards it.

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