> I'm surprised I have to write this,
Insulting the reader
> but Google is not a charity
truism
> They are pouring commercial resources...
As opposed to "non-commercial resources"?
> ... for a reason.
Everything happens for a reason.
> That reason is Google Cloud.
> How do I know this?
Pray tell!
> Because Tensorflow works better on Google Cloud than anywhere else.
This is the only real argument in this conspiracy. And if "anywhere" includes the users' hardware, it's wrong: tensorflow runs flawlessly on any Linux/NVIDIA hardware. Maybe it works better with GCE than AWS, but that would once again fall into that "rather unsurprising" category of factoids.
> Google is making a concerted effort to catch up with AWS in cloud, mostly through machine learning.
This can be re-written as "Google has a cloud offering, which it tries to sell. And right now, machine learning is pretty hot". Throwing a "concerted effort" in there is just trying to jazz it up to something ominous. Which it isn't.
> I didn't compare Tensorflow to Android services. I said that Tensorflow would serve as the basis of a service bundle, much like Android did.
"The basis of a service bundle" actually doesn't sound that scary. Nobody is disputing that Google offers services build on tensorflow. It just isn't any sort of "Trojan horse" conspiracy, and it is somewhat limited by the fact the tensorflow is OSS licensed and could be forked by anybody people suddenly find out it's full of geek soldiers.
