3min chapter

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg cover image

Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (with Cory Doctorow)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

Google's Market Cap Gap

Alphabet, as I understand it, spends about 27 billion a year in R&D. That includes a bunch of stuff that is not new products. It's just refining ad tech. And the adjacent stuff like server management and whatnot. So they're a company that doesn't do R&D seriously or is very bad at it,. one of the other.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode