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Microsoft cannot compete in browser race and has to adopt Chromium.

Apple cannot compete in AI and has to adopt Gemini

Google is a really amazing company.

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Google is a great developer, but a really shitty consumer company.

Nest devices are garbage, it has been like a decade since their phones were competitive with other vendors, ChromeOS was barely hanging outside of education center and now it's a zombie walking since Apple released their cheap Mac Nano, Gemini is a joke as a product compared to Anthropic and ChatGPT. The only things worth something are Chrome, Gmail, Workspace and their Cloud.

Too bad Google can’t compete in consumer or professional AI either

What do you define as professional AI? If you're talking about enterprise AI I'd say they are well ahead of Microsoft and AWS.

In both cases, Google built a commodity that doesn't necessarily generate revenue for them. I don't think they're doing very well in this case.

Not directly, but they control the most popular portal to the open Internet with chromium to shape ad delivery, and (depending on how dramatic you want to be) the shape of reality presented to their users based on their AI models. Not directly profitable, but damn that's a scary level of power.

And it's amazing that they are doing very well overall without having to do too well to generate revenue.

Google's power is in controlling your interface. How you interact with the internet, and now, how you interact with AI, is dictated by them. There is massive power in being the interface between you and information.

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