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One nice thing about SaaS is that the “aaS” part is just as important as the “S”.

So with that logic, google shouldn’t ever buy anything from anyone…

Clearly false.

"Never sell something your customers could build themselves" and "never buy anything you could build yourself" are not the same thing.

? Not really. You can reword it and say that just because google can build it means you shouldn’t try to sell it to them. And google can build pretty much anything at this point if they wanted to.

Google’s budget for software and services I’m sure is in the hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars. So again, obviously false.

They make their own NICs, GPUs, SSDs and CPUs so you aren't wrong but you also miss the point entirely. I made a statement about customers, not Google. You should have an LLM correct your logic.

This reminds me of Dwight from the office in the episode where he doesn’t tip the delivery driver and says: I never tip for anything I can do myself. I can deliver this if I want to.

He also notes that he does tip the guy who pulverizes his kidney stones.