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by epicide 2816 days ago
These are the sorts of projects that make sense to me for Google to be playing around with. Namely, they are highly experimental and pushing what might even be possible, but have the potential to (especially if Google shows success) suddenly boom into a large market since games have a high demand.

It also makes sense for Google to push for this sort of usage since it's more data going through pipes. Data they can analyze in some way, make money, etc.

The Google projects that make less sense to me are projects that are largely about data retention, long term stability, and are generally considered solved problems. I.e. email and office suites.

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Those long-term solved projects can be sold to other companies as part of GSuite.
I'm honestly not sure how that wasn't obvious to me.
> highly experimental and pushing what might even be possible

This is hardly true, Nvidia already does this, charges for it, and it works really well on a good connection.