How long until they're forced by investors to drop the act and just be an ad company?
Seriously, has a single Google project outside the Gsuite had any success ever?
Seriously, has a single Google project outside the Gsuite had any success ever?
None of which have ever (or will ever) generate any meaningful revenue for Google beyond their ability to funnel people into ads. They are an ad company, and nothing more.
It's also extremely reductive to just boil everything down into 'ads'.
Like for example, if Bing somehow over took Google's search, YT would still be making money. That's an important part of the company.
You are aware how YT makes money, right?
The point is though, that if Search Ads stop making money, why would YT ads also stop making money?
You're speaking as if society is going to stop having Ads altogether.
The same argument applied to e.g. Apple would be like "Apple makes all it's money through HARDWARE, since iPhone and Mac and wearables are all HARDWARE, they only have 1 revenue stream". Which is unsophisticated and kinda dumb
One is a BUSINESS MODEL, the other is a product category. You are confusing the two.
It seems unsophisticated because it is unsophisticated. Take away the ads model and you don't have a business. It's that simple.
I am not against the ads model, because it's business at the end of the day. But to think it's anything more than that is kinda dumb too. All products need to make money. That's how employees get paid 200-500k salaries.
You might not like it, but Google functions as a whole, not individual products. No CEO is going to look at YouTube and think of it as a separate business. It may be able to function as one, but he/she is always thinking how it can help the other products under the company.
You seem to have this fascination with Google products. I would argue you are not business-minded at all. Would you consider yourself a Google fan boy?
On a last note, I would appreciate it if you argue on the merits of the argument instead of calling other people kinda dumb. It's doesn't convince me one bit about your logic and shows the limit of your reasoning skills. The cap locks also don't help. It's immature.
1. Google ads. The vast majority of their products are funnels into ads, but ads are the business. Android, for example, is simply a channel for the ad business. Alternatively, Google could have chosen to sell Android to manufacturers the way MS does Windows. That way it could have become an independently profitable business, but they deliberately chose to not develop it as a business but make it a channel for the ad business.
2. GSuite.
Everything since then has been the slow crumbling of their "Kool-Aid"/branding about their company. Finally being a public company chasing quarterly earnings will peel the last remnants of idealism off their carefully constructed image.
One of the most illustrative things for me is Google Talks back in that day, some of the people invited and subjects would be unthinkable for today's Google.
I wished I could have been a Googler in that period, kind of my dream job if I had any.