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Given that Alphabet was basically Larry and Seigei's personal pet projects and the goal was for Google to fund these projects, it's easier to funnel money up instead of out.
Wasn't YouTube a separate entity under Alphabet, and not a part of Google? That alone would be a $100B company
If you're having trouble reading it: https://outline.com/pGLZ6U
I dont know how what you did is legal. From https://www.outline.com/dmca.html Notice to Users If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't submit it. Outline is for reading pages that: you own the rights to, is in the public domain, constitutes fair use, or you have consent of the copyright holder. If we find you repeatedly submitting content that does not meet the above criteria, we will block you from using…
Also, sites that want paywalls are technically capable of doing that in a way that archive.is, outline.com, etc, can't scrape them. They don't, though, because they want the best of both worlds. Want to charge for your content? Fine, do that, but you lose exposure from search engines, HN, Facebook, etc.
Curious how they are going to "block me" though. I don't have an account with Outline.
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> The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more than an “accessory.” It’s a new platform, new OS variant, etc. It’s dominating smart watches. The Apple Watch is literally designed to be an accessory to the iPhone - you can't use most of its features without an iPhone. I wanted one for my Android phone but tough shit for me. If you like it as a product that's fine, but it is absolutely an accessory to an iPhone be…
Right now it requires an iphone. They've been slowly reducing the need to have one until pretty soon, maybe v5, won't require one
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In this case, AMP doesn't help much...it's still downloading a ton of crap. 464 requests and 12MB of garbage for an AMP hosted article. https://imgur.com/tPHaHIO
That's because you are running in a simulator and not doing ad-blocking. Here is the real deal, 1.9MB and took 12 seconds to load completely: https://imgur.com/a/XcsNEsp The actual Bloomberg page was 5.3Mbytes and took 30 seconds to load completely: https://imgur.com/a/zBaOzeD If 3X improvement in loading time and data transfer is not much of a help, I don't know what it is. USERS like AMP because it is an actual imp…
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Wasn't YouTube a separate entity under Alphabet, and not a part of Google? That alone would be a $100B company
It would be. But it doesn’t make money. Someone has to pay for it still.
All I can find is that, as of 2019, nobody knows [1]. (Unfortunately I can't read the full paywalled content.)
Also, it might not be profitable but could still be break-even.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ok-google-hows-youtube-doing-11...
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It would be. But it doesn’t make money. Someone has to pay for it still.
Do you have a source for that? All I can find is that, as of 2019, nobody knows [1]. (Unfortunately I can't read the full paywalled content.) Also, it might not be profitable but could still be break-even. [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/ok-google-hows-youtube-doing-11...
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That seems way more idealistic somehow. More likely, with a more standard corporate governance Google will begin to rot from within. Apple certainly made more profits under Cook than Jobs, but innovation has slowed to a crawl and he has failed to diversify Apple away from having one product (instead he just added a bunch of accessory products and services). The last thing Google needs is to double down on ads, it tak…
> innovation has slowed to a crawl This is so typical of Apple criticism. They did do well with the iPhone and Mac that now any new innovations seem boring in comparison. It’s wrong. The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more than an “accessory.” It’s a new platform, new OS variant, etc. It’s dominating smart watches. The AirPods are pretty innovative in terms of the fine grained details that have made them su…
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That's because you are running in a simulator and not doing ad-blocking. Here is the real deal, 1.9MB and took 12 seconds to load completely: https://imgur.com/a/XcsNEsp The actual Bloomberg page was 5.3Mbytes and took 30 seconds to load completely: https://imgur.com/a/zBaOzeD If 3X improvement in loading time and data transfer is not much of a help, I don't know what it is. USERS like AMP because it is an actual imp…
12 seconds and 1.9MB isn't anything to brag about either, especially considering you needed an ad-blocker to get there.
Fight AMP as hard as you like, start a Kickstarter for anti-AMP explaining to the public the evils of AMP but when my search results return an AMP site and non-AMP site I am clicking the AMP.
Web tech people can revolt all they want or they can actually find a way to display a few kb of text and image quickly. You can be the music industry trying to protect their CD business or you can own the Napster/iTunes/Spotify and make your money from there.
Web publishing becomes garbage, AMP is fast loading garbage. The fast-loading garbage wins.
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> innovation has slowed to a crawl This is so typical of Apple criticism. They did do well with the iPhone and Mac that now any new innovations seem boring in comparison. It’s wrong. The Apple Watch came out under Cook. That is more than an “accessory.” It’s a new platform, new OS variant, etc. It’s dominating smart watches. The AirPods are pretty innovative in terms of the fine grained details that have made them su…
Correct. People think that stuff like iPhone can just be created, if there is enough will and innovation. The iPhone is the most successful consumer electronics product of all time, and might also be the most profitable product on an yearly average basis. Failure to recreate that is not bad. Expecting any company to keep churning out things like the iPhone would be too harsh.
The Newton is an interesting foil.
Why wasn't the Newton the first smart phone? Early internet, barely a high-speed cellular infrastructure, silicon not quite small and efficient enough, no lithium batteries, cost....
Saying the Newton was "ahead of its time" is really a way of saying all the right bits and pieces weren't there yet.
We'll know what the next "big thing" is after it happens. You can't force it though regardless of the dollars you have for R&D.
Just MHO.
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The selling point of AMP is that it's a mobile-friendly web component framework. If someone uses AMP for their website, and as a result you get a better mobile experience, it's hard to see how that's not inherent to AMP.
I turn on the faucet and fill a glass of water. Taking a drink from the glass, I feel less thirsty. If someone turns on a faucet, and as a result feels less thirsty, then that that thirst-removal must be inherent to turning on a faucet, right? This is obviously silly, but follows the same reasoning that you have stated. Drinking water reduces thirst, not running water from a faucet. Redesigning a website to be less b…
But it doesn't seem helpful to analyze faucets as being a monopolistic plot by Big Water rather than a technology for letting you drink when you're thirsty.