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Weylyn Cadwell wrote: Google doesn't really have a main product that they sell.
Um...they do. It's called "Google" and they sell it heavily to advertisers, to the tune of $60,000,000,000 per year. (Quora[^], for 2014)
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Weylyn Cadwell wrote: Google doesn't really have a main product that they sell
Um, you mean apart from their multi-billion dollar advertising platform? Or their hosted office suites such as Google Drive and GMail? Or...the rest of the Alphabet of products they have?
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Chris Maunder
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Irony: Alphabet is the company that owns Google itself.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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While were on conspiracy theories Microsoft is a charity, Apple is a record company masquerading as a technology giant and Intel is a quasi government organization funded by taxpayers.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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where is IBM?
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It almost made the cut. Almost.
I really wanted to stick to the players getting more news time (though Watson is, admittedly, a killer piece of work) and was hoping those not in the list would be called out explicitly in this forum.
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Chris Maunder
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At least their products remain in production for a longer time, as compared to Google, whose Google Glass came up as, "Google's view of technology" and just had to melt down as a chocolate chip.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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True.
Microsoft, for all its faults, tends to keep things going. With Google you are far more likely to find your favourite things disappearing overnight. That was one argument I used to persuade my employer to use Office 365 rather than Google Apps.
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Quote: With Google you are far more likely to find your favourite things disappearing overnight
Nah... That's Facebook.
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If you voted "none of the above" then name the tech company you think does it best.
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Chris Maunder
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I agree the list is rather ethnocentric/ regiocentric!
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Yahoo
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However, I do not think they are really doing much innovative. Really just reinventing the wheel, but it is a better wheel.
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I dunno, they seem to be very innovative in their internal stuff, so maybe its not 'relevant' to the rest of us, but still.
But for the few others that operate or want to operate at Google's scale, then I think Google out innovate all of them.
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Evolutionary, not revolutionary.
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Problem is, how do we know what Alphabet/Google is mixing up in their X division......
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The really innovative stuff is from small companies and independents - which are then bought by the others in the list (except for poor underfunded non-of-the-above).
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Sometimes. Having deep pockets and the ability to plan ahead years really allows some serious innovation. However, having nothing to lose and no one to piss off really allows some serious innovation...
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Chris Maunder
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Well, on occasion I enjoy being egotistical, narcissistic, self-centered, the universe revolves around me.
Marc
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SpaceX
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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modified 18-May-16 3:00am.
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Was thinking about the same thing!
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer.
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