>> For example the news reader could be easily split off or sold
> For things on the Google stack selling isn't really easy.
If Google would build their new products using only publicly available GCP features, that would be a really smart move.
It would signal that they're confident enough about GCP to build their own products on it, and they can spin off products that are small successes but not large enough to move the needle at Google scale. Or if they're not profitable, open source them and allow people to run their own instance of it on GCP if they want.
> For things on the Google stack selling isn't really easy.
If Google would build their new products using only publicly available GCP features, that would be a really smart move.
It would signal that they're confident enough about GCP to build their own products on it, and they can spin off products that are small successes but not large enough to move the needle at Google scale. Or if they're not profitable, open source them and allow people to run their own instance of it on GCP if they want.