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Originally Posted by Hellmark
One other thong people are forgetting is that by limiting storage capacity, dependency on cloud storage increases. What is Google if not a Cloud company?
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An ad-selling company.
They *want* to be a cloud company but are quite aways from what Amazon, Salesforce.com, or Microsoft can offer. A few lightyears ahead of Apple, though. Apple barely registers in the cloud.
There is more to Cloud computing than webmail and online storage or even office-wannabe apps. Hosting services, remote management, corporate apps, and APIs for custom in-house apps are areas were Google still needs development.
Apple's problem is bigger: Cloud computing is about virtualizing computers whereas their whole mindset is about consumer *hardware* so their cloud dabbling only goes as far as adding resources to consumer hardware. Since the main focus of cloud computing adoption is in the corporate sphere...
Anyway, 99% of Google net income is from ad sales. Everything else is noise. (As in, lots of talk and visibility, low net income.)
