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0 pointsmanigandham7y ago0 comments

Google Cloud Platform is a separate company/division focused on cloud computing, which has potential to be a trillion-dollar industry. Alphabet/Google could possibly make more money from this than ads in the future.

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alexnewman7y ago· 1 in thread

Do you also agree that if users don't use the value added services of cloud computing it could become a commodity business with very low margins?

manigandhamOP7y ago

Yes. General compute and storage is already commodity.

jedmeyers7y ago

Cloud Platform is not a separate company, it’s a division within Google.

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