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by slyfox117 4187 days ago
While a fair assessment, Google is a cloud provider to its internal teams anyways. While there is some overhead to providing it to customers, it's probably less than the overhead of Google Reader or Google Wave because much of the work is already necessary.
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Mund that Google Reader and Google Wave were "free" products whereas cloud offerings are paid, so there is more direct revenue.