[MattGaiser]

> The company has spent billions and billions of dollars per year on projects that go nowhere for over a decade

Isn’t Google pretty open that it doesn’t expect most of these to succeed?

This statement has “shut down the R&D as it doesn’t make money” vibes.

[hot_gril]

If you mean the moonshots, Google killed most of them and hasn't announced new ones. I do think Google was mistaken that it could detach parts of itself to act like startups. Too much red tape and not enough grit.

What bothers me more is how they fumbled repeatedly on conventional projects like chat apps.

[pfdietz]

It's the "when you look for things, look where they are". A stunning approach to R&D.

Maybe Google needs to invest in crystal balls?