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Don't forget the failing Google cloud.

It is way too "Googly" for its own good. I did a shootout of six visual recognition APIs a few years ago. I got five of them to work in under fifteen minutes. Google Cloud has an authentication system modeled after

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWEvp217Tzw&feature=emb_logo

and took much longer, trashing my Anaconda installation along the way. (IBM Cloud sticks out because it is still sending me spam.)

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GCP growth beat expectations in the recent quarterly earnings.

I'm not sure one can generalize from a pandemic economy. Macroeconomics beats microeconomics.

I'd /never/ use GCP in any sort of business setting. Too high odds an automated Google algorithm would take out my business.

Googley automation worked well enough for B2C, and when Google hired the best people. When Google has a mid-tier workforce, buggy algorithms, and bugs can take out entire businesses, you run into problems. Combined with the old culture of arrogance, I don't see GCP ever competing with Amazon, or even Azure.

GCP includes G Suite. Earnings went up for email, office documents, and remote meetings software.

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