Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC

• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those are where the money comes from, re adsense. Remember, Google is a B2B company, they sell public attention to advertisers.

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  • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well if they know that, why spend time and money on all the other consumer products only to drop them a few years later?

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is my understanding that this is a byproduct of Google’s company culture. Google hires software engineers, they’re incentivized to invent something of their own. They do so. They get promoted. There isn’t room in their company structure for anything to be maintained, maintaining someone else’s project isn’t a path to promotion. So Play Wallet is now Android Pay is now Google Pay is being sunset.

      Oh, and Google is an American corporation, so anything that doesn’t promise infinite exponential growth in revenue or unprecedented opportunities for cruelty is shot in the head as worthless.

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