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		acchow on Nov 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B "Google just doesn't know what it's about anymore." Isn't it an organization optimized for enabling engineers to increase leverage? That's why things get rewritten into [language/framework du jour].

m0zg on Nov 1, 2019 [–]

I think they do. They're the same thing they've always been: an advertising company. They can only become something else when the majority of their income is derived from something else. Which it currently isn't.

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