> When will everyone understand that google cloud (money earning product) is different to all the other free products
When Google demonstrates it. They've already discontinued various parts of their cloud product.
True, they are unlikely to shut down gmail, search, or Android.
On the other hand google's cloud is a money loser that has slipped to a distant #4 in the cloud rankings.
But like many of Google's revenue-generating products it exists to show Wall Street that they have an increasingly diversified revenue stream (I think advertising is "down" to around 87%). They have lots of bets to try an improve this but little to show for it.
They did recently commit $2B to making GCP a player but I suspect that if that doesn't show results by the end of 2020, investment in this sector will fall precipitously.
