Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
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Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#2We use GCP at work, it works well for what we use it (VMs, container storage, cloud file storage), I wish they would stop deprecating stuff though, it just causes developer busy work with no additional value.
Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#3Such a blerg nothing company with almost no innovation sitting on a cash volcano that never stops erupting.
I often think about what an incredible bargain YouTube was at $1 billion.
Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#4Impressive results. Microsoft also reported strong cloud growth yesterday.
Amazon reports today. AWS has been slipping and at current growth rates would slip to the number 2 cloud provider in a few years time… let’s see if that trend holds true today.
Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#5We use GCP at work, it works well for what we use it (VMs, container storage, cloud file storage), I wish they would stop deprecating stuff though, it just causes developer busy work with no additional value.
> it just causes developer busy work with no additional value.
Anyone remotely familiar with Google as a third party developer will notice the pattern: this will ramp up until it is almost your entire job simply dealing with their changes, most of which will be not-quite-actual-fixes to their previous round of changes.
This is not unique to Google, but it is a strategy employed to slow down development at other companies, and so help preserve the moat.
Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#6We use GCP at work, it works well for what we use it (VMs, container storage, cloud file storage), I wish they would stop deprecating stuff though, it just causes developer busy work with no additional value.
It's not just busy work, it's like being chained to a sandpaper treadmill especially in some specific "hot" domains like AI. It feels like you can build something with it and 3 months later you've got to update your code because half the dependencies are deprecated.
Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#7Such a blerg nothing company with almost no innovation sitting on a cash volcano that never stops erupting. I often think about what an incredible bargain YouTube was at $1 billion.
almost no innovation? from transformers to alphago to the quantum stuff.
Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#8Such a blerg nothing company with almost no innovation sitting on a cash volcano that never stops erupting. I often think about what an incredible bargain YouTube was at $1 billion.
They have completely monopolized access. I was thinking am a weird exception for not ranking for the exact name/domain of my product until I have met a couple other entrepreneurs who have names/domains and still don't rank first but instead some other random website will show up.
So just the simple fact of "existing" on the Internet now costs money. Not only that, with their ads, you can target competitors search names. So you need to outbid your competitors so that your users don't get directed to your competitors by "accident". When I lost uBlock last month, I was surprised how many sites buy ads for their own names.
Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#9We use GCP at work, it works well for what we use it (VMs, container storage, cloud file storage), I wish they would stop deprecating stuff though, it just causes developer busy work with no additional value.
> it just causes developer busy work with no additional value. Anyone remotely familiar with Google as a third party developer will notice the pattern: this will ramp up until it is almost your entire job simply dealing with their changes, most of which will be not-quite-actual-fixes to their previous round of changes. This is not unique to Google, but it is a strategy employed to slow down development at other compa…
> it is a strategy employed to slow down development at other companies, and so help preserve the moat.
Worked at Google for 7 years, and your post reminds me it is time to share a secret: it is Koyaanisqatsi* and people's base instincts unbridled, no more. There is no quicker route to irrelevancy than being the person who cares about something from last years OKRs.
* to be clear, s/Koyaanisqatsi/too big to exist healthily and yet it does exist -- edited this in, after I realized it's unclear even if you watched the movie and know the translation of the word
Re: Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
#10Impressive results. Microsoft also reported strong cloud growth yesterday. Amazon reports today. AWS has been slipping and at current growth rates would slip to the number 2 cloud provider in a few years time… let’s see if that trend holds true today.
> Microsoft also reported strong cloud growth yesterday.
Is that why Azure was down, maybe it was out celebrating? Hahah