a company is measured by its profits, any new venture needs to have a business behind it. xerox parc, ms labs - great hobbies, no monetization. google x? nothing so far. glass is cooling off. car has driven 400k miles - on the same, tightly controled circuit. no commercial products in sight.
i personnally have had discussions with google execs about new business areas where google could easily transform established industries - to be shut down with the phrase "we don't touch any market below 1bn". and that was 3 years ago.
kids these days don't give a shit about google. search happens in the browser url bar, not google.com. search is a commodity. how exactly is google still relevant?
that's a single platform. this is not the case on iOS and China Android (AOSP). iOS in the US is growing vs. Android.
same for PCs, Search is moving out of the browser (Win8, OSX), just something you type or say (Siri, Cortana).
yes, Google has Now, etc. but it has competition now and has not launched any new blockbuster since Android - and that one does not rake in huge profits. for that, they only have ads, embedded in search.
>kids these days don't give a shit about google. search happens in the browser url bar, not google.com. search is a commodity. how exactly is google still relevant?
kids these days don't give a shit about google. search happens in the browser url bar, not google.com. search is a commodity. how exactly is google still relevant?
Snapchat is not a company that is even remotely comparable to Google, you know.
Gmail. Search. Chrome. Maps. Docs. These are all hugely popular products with young people, and the user base is vast.
a company is measured by its profits, any new venture needs to have a business behind it. xerox parc, ms labs - great hobbies, no monetization. google x? nothing so far. glass is cooling off. car has driven 400k miles - on the same, tightly controled circuit. no commercial products in sight.
i personnally have had discussions with google execs about new business areas where google could easily transform established industries - to be shut down with the phrase "we don't touch any market below 1bn". and that was 3 years ago.
kids these days don't give a shit about google. search happens in the browser url bar, not google.com. search is a commodity. how exactly is google still relevant?