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

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

Google Is Not Trying to Maximize Profit

It's clear Google is not trying to maximize profit. I think that's pretty obvious. Why would you say that? Oh, well, they sit on just absolutely massive amounts of cash and they do huge numbers of projectsThat seem well, it seemed to me anyway, they're not profit maximizing. No, I would completely dispute that characterization about Google works. So Google as a share of its revenues spends almost nothing on R&D.

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