You seem to have linked to Google's slightly inferior, copycat cloud offering.
I read Steve's rant as a cri de coeur not for an AWS-style infrastructure as was relevant and genre-busting at the time of the essay's inception, but for Google to stop following slowly with slightly inferior, copycat versions of other people's grand ideas and expecting anything good to happen out of it.
Granted, Google has some pretty great, if in-the-small, consumer-facing initiatives: think Street View.
But as one of the primary governments of the internet, they could be doing so much more to move the needle for computing and advance the general state of the art.
Where's googlelang?
Where's infinite instant CI for any language?
Where's infinite immutable package versioning for every language?
Where's the big thoughts?
