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Re:Project Fi by Google by aerovistae on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:48PM (#9422136)
They won't be a market leader in everything. What do they lead aside from search, ads, and mobile OS?

The really funny bit is that near the end of Steve Jobs's life (per the biography), Larry Page asked him for advice and of course he said "focus on doing a few things really well, cut out everything else."

Seems Larry decided he knew better.

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Re:Project Fi by Google by inglor on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:50PM (#9422157)
> What do they lead aside from search, ads, and mobile OS?

Browser, email, self-driving cars. Lots of other stuff too...

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Re:Project Fi by Google by joshuapants on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:56PM (#9422201)
> Browser

Leading in memory usage perhaps

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Re:Project Fi by Google by neumino on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:04PM (#9422279)
Leading in security.
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Re:Project Fi by Google by yellowapple on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:06PM (#9422292)
Nah, Internet Explorer takes the crown there.
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Re:Project Fi by Google by icebraining on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:26PM (#9422460)
Leading in self-driving cars is debatable. They surely have the most visibility, but some car manufacturers and academic institutions like VisLab also have some impressive prototypes, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNcyuApIlFw (the autonomous car is the one in front)
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Re:Project Fi by Google by MrBuddyCasino on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:52PM (#9422174)
That advice led to the closing down of many Google services. Apple doesn't just produce a single device, either.
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Re:Project Fi by Google by rev_bird on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @01:57PM (#9422213)
But they make a line of laptops, a line of mobile devices, and some software. There's no iSpaceship or Apple Submarine(TM) yet -- if you told me Google had a sub bouncing around San Francisco Bay, I wouldn't even question it.
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Re:Project Fi by Google by icebraining on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:27PM (#9422468)
Do barges count? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_barges
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Re:Project Fi by Google by presty on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:35PM (#9422978)
the barges are no longer in the bay area

not a sub, but there was/is? this http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/01/07/google-launches-...

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Re:Project Fi by Google by seri on Friday April 24, 2015 @05:09AM (#9432141)
> Seems Larry decided he knew better.

Apparently he did. In the same biography, Isaacson wrote that "asking for advice to run a company" was just a clever way for Larry to visit Jobs in peace, playing to his ego, so to speak, as Jobs still held a grudge against Android.

Google is a very different company from Apple anyway. At Apple, innovation runs top-down, from the likes of Jobs and Ive to Foxconn workers. At Google, innovation runs bottom-up.

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Re:Project Fi by Google by cylinder on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:40PM (#9422580)
Larry (and Sergey I believe) is an INTP, the business reflects that personality type.
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