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Not really seeing a material difference between this and just using one of the available machine learning AMI's on EC2. Relatively anticlimactic

That's very interesting, among my social circle (low 20's Northeast New England Area) Venmo has an implicit monopoly on the service. I doubt any of my non-cs friends have even heard of Square's offering.

'Venmo' itself has become a verb rather than just a service so I doubt either of them have the necessary momentum to take these services to anything more than nominal levels of volume relative to the market lead

If they still owned 51% of the company their respective net worth would make even Bezos seem paltry

Headline is pretty clickbaity

So a Squarespace/Wix replacement?

Definitely a provocative comment that might not be correct but I don't think it deserved to be down-voted. Just because he's Elon doesn't mean he doesn't play his own manipulation games

Do you think they would still be doing this if TF hadn't become the near de-facto ML software? Seems like more of a response to its rise than an actual research project

Is this as much of a collusion attempt against TensorFlow as it seems? Or has this been a long time coming?

Pretty hilariously bad report. When they first came out with it the URL path said 'Spotify' instead of 'Shopify'

Almost has to be a troll in the system who decided to prove a point

It's unfortunate the amazing advances Google's been making with its ml software are being packaged up into a bunch of happenstance hardware offerings.

I had the exact same thought as you two minutes ago if I'm honest and apparently that's on the way with the new pixel phone.

http://www.droid-life.com/2017/09/19/google-home-mini-exclus...

You don't think they should be worried at all about the Echo platform?

Glass was innovative and ahead of it's time but that being said it feels like Google (and Apple for that matter) are falling into the risky playbook of mirroring other companies' ideas and assuming their scale will take care of the rest

Serious Question; Is Google ever going to get out of catch-up mode in this department?

What are some of the open source options?

Yes they are still using AWS entirely (as far as I've seen) in fact they've doubled down on their AWS commitment it seems by integrating with Lex and Connect.

Their stock isn't so hot right now but that's not terribly out of sorts for a relatively new company. Enterprise I've heard many stories about. Their commitment to starting with the developer is admirable though.

Doesn't bode well for Twilio that Amazon keeps rolling out these ecosystem-enhancing SMS features. They're still a standout solution for anybody who doesn't use AWS IMP but these features are getting a little too close for comfort

This is almost certainly a pro on the consumer end of things but ultimately how much of a win is this really? Facebook and Google will still be fine so if anything this further consolidates the information monopoly. I'm happy Apple did it, and I don't think the "Six major advertising consortia" are going to do themselves any favors by coming out guns blazing against them for this, but the problem is much deeper rooted than this.

Same thing I've noticed, and even beyond that people still seem to feel the need to put a final layer of effort into their insta stories relative to Snap stories, I'd say Snap still has a definite role

Were the Specs ever meant to be more than a hype vehicle though? Obv. if it had blown up into an international phenomenon Spiegel & Co. would have taken it but I feel like it was more just a power strut en route to their IPO to show that people are excited about their platform more so than "Big Brother's"

I would argue most of Alexa's most import features are not free, doubleclick is still a cloak around the entire digital advertising industry that gives them access to actionable metrics of how websites are doing (i.e. maybe why they've pushed into job search recently).

One commonality among all of them is being marketed as a service for smaller-scale companies while having the double-edged sword on the backend that is most likely what they are really after

EDIT: smaller scale companies and individuals

Sounds a lot like Amazon owning Alexa (the website service), Google owning double click, etc.

If Tesla 'merged' with SpaceX and Boring Co. on the public market you're talking about a company that could have a $100B mkt cap as soon as next year, the slight and continuing unofficial convergence of all of his companies is a bit odd

I still find that at least a quarter of the stories my friends post on Instagram are just their Snapchat usernames

The general point seems to be "large corporation doesn't pay its fair share of taxes". Something that seems to be more of a hot-button issue in Europe

I don't like being rude in comments sections but that's a pretty dumb comment to make, to be honest. I don't think the writer needs any help understanding how tax bills are formulated, it's just meant to state a point. (Which you would understand if you read the article before commenting)

Title is absurdly click bait once you actually read a couple of articles about what they are actually doing

I understand the legalities of how they're separate, what I'm saying is if the "cross-fertilization" approach between the two companies proliferates to the point where they are material to each other's operations, what's to stop Starboard or some other activist investor group from launching a campaign against them?

Obviously, Elon would be against this, I'm not saying they would personally be for this decision, I'm saying if the market stops being as forgiving to Tesla as it is, could a group not gain significant voting power and push this against them?