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> Google's track record of buying technology and then doing something better with it is not encouraging at all.

Err...what? Earth, Maps, Docs, Waymo, Android, YouTube, WebRTC, Flights, Deepmind all come from acquisitions.[1]

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They haven't done much better with many of these. And I suspect these would also have succeeded independently of Google.

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0 pointstriceratops5y ago0 comments

> Google's track record of buying technology and then doing something better with it is not encouraging at all.

Err...what? Earth, Maps, Docs, Waymo, Android, YouTube, WebRTC, Flights, Deepmind all come from acquisitions.[1]

They haven't done much better with many of these. And I suspect these would also have succeeded independently of Google.

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