They have, AFAICT, the leader in worst "AI" on the market, and are shedding customers like crazy (my company left Google+Slack for MS just to get Teams for free and I wish they didn't, they use AWS but I wish they didn't), and we're suppose to pay more for this?
> If all three billion Google Workspace users paid that standard increase, that would equal an additional $7.2 billion in monthly revenue for the company.
And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. There's no way Google has 3 billion paid users for this product. That said, Google is currently expanding its Hyderabad office by a lot, and moving projects there, attempting to use the old globalist playbook by charging first world prices for third world labor costs. Seems unwise in the long run, given the recent geopolitical upheavals.
No, it's they that are making this point. I merely point out that their claims of how much money this is going to generate are deliberately and wildly overstated.
They have, AFAICT, the leader in worst "AI" on the market, and are shedding customers like crazy (my company left Google+Slack for MS just to get Teams for free and I wish they didn't, they use AWS but I wish they didn't), and we're suppose to pay more for this?
I wonder if google discloses their search ad revenue vs cloud revenue etc.
I have to imagine that their search revenue is declining with their search being nearly unusable these days, and with AI.
This is a great way to milk all their paying customers to bring those revenue numbers back up.
Pichai is seriously the worst CEO. I hope google gets their own Nadella soon so the once great company can actually innovate again like it used to.
Eric Schmidt was Google's Nadella.
Now it's basically an MBA paperclip maximizer.
Yeah I miss the Schmidt days!!
> If all three billion Google Workspace users paid that standard increase, that would equal an additional $7.2 billion in monthly revenue for the company.
And if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. There's no way Google has 3 billion paid users for this product. That said, Google is currently expanding its Hyderabad office by a lot, and moving projects there, attempting to use the old globalist playbook by charging first world prices for third world labor costs. Seems unwise in the long run, given the recent geopolitical upheavals.
You make the point like it is some kind of gotcha
The whole point of business is to make something (software, widget, gizmo) for cheap and sell it for a higher price.
No, it's they that are making this point. I merely point out that their claims of how much money this is going to generate are deliberately and wildly overstated.
I think they won’t but even 50-100m paying users is big money
Not quite the same dramatic effect that Jacobin was aiming for.