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0 pointslosteric4y ago0 comments

GCP is a profit center and diversifies the business, why would Alphabet deprecate it?

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According to top comment it loses money?

> Lost $890m this quarter compared to $1.2B Q4 2020

It's growing 45% per year. In 3 years - the profits of Cloud alone could be bigger than all but a few companies in the world.

If at some point it hinders their main biz (ads) they will. Just like they did with rss

Ah, yes, everyone knows that Google killed their highly profitable product in Google Reader to push ads somehow.

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According to top comment it loses money?

> Lost $890m this quarter compared to $1.2B Q4 2020

It's growing 45% per year. In 3 years - the profits of Cloud alone could be bigger than all but a few companies in the world.

If at some point it hinders their main biz (ads) they will. Just like they did with rss

Ah, yes, everyone knows that Google killed their highly profitable product in Google Reader to push ads somehow.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse