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computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

The Management posted:

"don't be evil" is one of the greatest marketing line in history. it hacked the brains of a bunch of idiot nerds to defend the practices of the world's largest advertising company

tbf that's not too hard to do, look at netflix for another example of idiots defending corporate profits

actually it almost seems like how some dumb leftists go "anyone who's an enemy of america is a friend of mine", except with ISPs in place of america

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PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

with each passing day I think Justine tooley is the true spokeswoman of Google

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

PleasureKevin posted:

with each passing day I think Justine tooley is the true spokeswoman of Google
tunney

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
are goog and googl changing symbols?

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Triglav posted:

are goog and googl changing symbols?

nope. you now own shares in a conglomerate named alphabet, whose stock is named after their only profit-making division, Google.

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
"google holdings" wasnt innovative enough

Fuzzy Mammal
Aug 15, 2001

Lipstick Apathy
if you work for google, ur a googler
if you work for alphabet, ur a character :iamafag:

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

if you work for google, ur a googler
if you work for alphabet, ur a character :iamafag:

:cripes:

qntm
Jun 17, 2009

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

if you work for google, ur a googler
if you work for alphabet, ur a character :iamafag:

/raises eyebrows provocatively, waggles cigar

El_Elegante
Jul 3, 2004

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Biscuit Hider

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

if you work for google, ur a googler
if you work for alphabet, ur a character :iamafag:

Yaos
Feb 22, 2003

She is a cat of significant gravy.

MrMoo posted:

Google Inc. Class A Common Stock is changing from CUSIP 38259P508 to 02079K305, and Class C from 38259P706 to 02079K107.

Great, dumbing down stock options. When will wall street learn that day traders like myself can handle stock without needing my hand held?

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Triglav posted:

"google holdings" wasnt innovative enough

legitimately the reason why they did this was 1) to give more people ceos titles and 2) to easily spin off and kill poo poo that's unprofitable without harming the google name

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

computer parts posted:

legitimately the reason why they did this was 1) to give more people ceos titles and 2) to easily spin off and kill poo poo that's unprofitable without harming the google name

to move the losses made by the other groups out of the Google bottom line so it looks like it's making more money
to put google in maintenance mode while Larry and Sergei gently caress around with things they care interested in
to stop Google employees from thinking they can transfer to the moonshot projects
to stop google culture from infesting new purchases (after how badly the nest integration went)

Base Emitter
Apr 1, 2012

?
im assuming there a tax dodge somehwere from rearranging all the legal entities accounting wise

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

The Management posted:

to move the losses made by the other groups out of the Google bottom line so it looks like it's making more money
to put google in maintenance mode while Larry and Sergei gently caress around with things they care interested in
to stop Google employees from thinking they can transfer to the moonshot projects

more like, remove larry and sergei's moonshot projects from google budgeting.

shareholders were getting testy because there was no way to prove how much spending was going into actual google R&D versus nonsensical projects that are doomed to lose money indefinitely

now management can't silently divert funds to obvious bullshit. it either has to be a conscious top-down strategy, or not done at all.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
the google play store has a thing now where you can "pre-register" to get the latest minions game from ea delivered straight to your phone one it's released

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

anthonypants posted:

the google play store has a thing now where you can "pre-register" to get the latest minions game from ea delivered straight to your phone one it's released

lol

Yaos
Feb 22, 2003

She is a cat of significant gravy.

anthonypants posted:

the google play store has a thing now where you can "pre-register" to get the latest minions game from ea delivered straight to your phone one it's released

Oh good, there's only 5 million lovely free to play games being released every hour so I'm glad a new one is coming out.

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

google forced to unbundle anroid in russia lol

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/05/russias-regulators-google-has-until-november-18th-to-play-fair/

Locker Room Zubaz
Aug 8, 2006

:horse:
~*~THE SECRET OF THE MAGICAL CRYSTALS IS THAT I'M FUCKING TERRIBLE~*~

:horse:

Does this only mean they have to unbundle new devices or push out a patch unbundling all old ones too? I don't see how OEMs will push unbundled versions in a little over a month when they take forever to do software validation

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

so russian phones will be even more broken, as befits the moronic russian government, got it

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

google makes bad products so removing them from russian phones will be an overall improvement

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

cremnob posted:

google makes bad products so removing them from russian phones will be an overall improvement

you are thinking of apple. apple makes bad products

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

actually im thinking about google

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

cremnob posted:

actually im thinking about google

no, you are thinking about apple. the company that actually makes tons of bad things and is dying

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

nice!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/technology/european-union-us-data-collection.html

Dodoman
Feb 26, 2009



A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret
Lipstick Apathy
Allah bless Smythe

Perplx
Jun 26, 2004


Best viewed on Orgasma Plasma
Lipstick Apathy

Nintendo Kid posted:

no, you are thinking about apple. the company that actually makes tons of bad things and is dying

with 600+ billion in the bank they are going to die any century now

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Perplx posted:

with 600+ billion in the bank they are going to die any century now

they're too stupid to use that money for anything, they're just piling it up uselessly

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

if you work for google, ur a googler
if you work for alphabet, ur a character :iamafag:

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

Nintendo Kid posted:

they're too stupid to use that money for anything, they're just piling it up uselessly

but enough about that time you won a gameshow

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



ahmeni posted:

but enough about that time you won a gameshow

lmao

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
when does the bullshit Nexus 6P come out I'm due for an upgrade

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

indigi posted:

when does the bullshit Nexus 6P come out I'm due for an upgrade

you can order now and receive it in six weeks or so unless you arent in freedomland in which case go gently caress yourself

Linguica
Jul 13, 2000
You're already dead

Wasn't someone talking recently about how Google was destined to start hosting websites directly in order to defeat adblocker blacklists. welp https://www.ampproject.org/

Maluco Marinero
Jan 18, 2001

Damn that's a
fine elephant.

Linguica posted:

Wasn't someone talking recently about how Google was destined to start hosting websites directly in order to defeat adblocker blacklists. welp https://www.ampproject.org/

Haha, the testimonials are hilarious, also the fact that it takes 5-6 seconds to see any text on the page. Scroogled again.

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

Linguica posted:

Wasn't someone talking recently about how Google was destined to start hosting websites directly in order to defeat adblocker blacklists. welp https://www.ampproject.org/

Nah, they're still the same ads, just hosted in iframes instead of the top level page. Even easier to find and block now since they're in amp-ad or amp-pixel tags.

Maluco Marinero posted:

Haha, the testimonials are hilarious, also the fact that it takes 5-6 seconds to see any text on the page. Scroogled again.

ampproject.org isn't an AMP page, you can tell because the top level html element isn't <html ⚡>

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Post the name bithc

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Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
Mines called SmytheCast. I also have KitchenCast

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