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Google is the new IBM (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I mean, excepting that google isn't even really the main offering when it comes to institutional compute (that's Microsoft/ azure).

Like IBM had mainframes and legacy infrastructure on lock.

The only thing google really has on lock still is gmail, but honestly, take it or leave it.

They had search, but I get better answers asking a space heater to hallucinate a couple hundred characters for me these days.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

:Android stares intently: “Am I a joke to you?”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Considering Android hasn’t fully implemented DHCPv6? Yes

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

i left it, tyvm

youtube is the only product of theirs i use regularly.

and android if you count lineageos as "theirs"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Google has YouTube

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

ChatGPT is nowhere near being able to replace search, and even if it was remotely similar, many people don't even really know what it is, whereas Google is ubiquitous with search.

To say they only have a lock on Gmail is doing them a huge disservice. They own a huge part of online advertising and search.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

For Gmail if you mean a lock on consumers who generally don't pay for the product I would agree, but I have done more g-suite to Office 365 in the past 12 months than I have in the past 5 years. It is too bad because we could really use some competition and different ideas in the office productivity space.