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These are great points. My two cents: I think there's potentially a lot more behind this product than just the face value of game streaming. Amazon is growing their compute power with aws, and other people are paying for this. Google needs something similar to grow their compute resources, and to lower risk by also having others pay for it. It's an arms race for compute power. With stadia Google will have an advantage over Amazon in gpu resources. Amazon could grow gpu resources by getting into the video rendering business with massive shows like Lord of The Rings to finance it. The other big win for Google imo is having this be a passion project for good engineers to pour their energy into