• miskOP
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    2 hours ago

    There’s so much to chop off there. They’re an ad monopolist, cut that. Their YouTube business is self sufficient, cut that. Android and Play Store? Chop chop chop. Cloud Services? Chainsaw goes wrrr. Google, Chrome and assorted services could stay with Google for brand recognition. All of them would be still very big and dangerously influential.

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      No shit, good fucking luck getting a business to purposely neuter itself.

      Any reduction in operations or separating into new businesses would almost certainly be an effort to trim expenses/fat, and not a realistic effort into creating multiple viable businesses.

      With that said, I’d definitely cut Cloud. They’re a distant and expensive third to AWS and Azure, and it probably doesn’t make the kind of money that other arms will make.