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by KoolKat23 700 days ago
Their investment is a sunk cost, at this point all looking at that number does is make it less attractive for others to enter the market and compete with them.

Those custom hardware costs and software maintenance costs should continue to reduce gradually as it is being commoditized.

The profit Uber make and the salary the drivers draw should eventually become the margin buffer/profit Google is able to extract.