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It's been a long time since Google just had one product. I'm sure anyone here could name a dozen.

Why say things that everyone knows to be false?

Depends on the point of view really.

Google's single product: you.

I don't understand this. I spent $100 on a Google VR headset recently. It has no tracking or weird crap that would count me as a "product". What are you talking about?

Google has a lot of products, period. Many of them have ASPs in the hundreds of dollars. Google sells real products.

Look at this chart and you’ll see what he means:

http://ritholtz.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/cotd52602.png

you really can’t compare them to microsoft

If you want to say that Google gets most of its revenue from ads, say that. It doesn't mean it's okay to say random falsehoods.

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