[HN Gopher] Satya Nadella: "I want to use this tactically vs. GO...
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Satya Nadella: "I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL" (2022)
Author : mfiguiere
Score : 30 points
Date : 2023-09-16 22:27 UTC (33 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (twitter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
| spaceflunky wrote:
| Can anyone ELI5 the significance of this?
| woodruffw wrote:
| I think it's being posted in light of the USG's pending
| antitrust lawsuit against Google[1].
|
| (However, that case concerns digital advertising, and this
| document seems to have been produced by discovery in a
| different case. So I'm not sure if it's relevant beyond the
| general theme of "Google considers other companies
| competitors.")
|
| [1]: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-
| googl...
| privacyking wrote:
| It's basically analogous to what Valve is doing with steam.
| Windows has a monopoly on PC gaming and Valve does not want to
| be subject to any future restrictions or requirements that may
| be enforced in the future, so they funded andfacilitated gaming
| on Linux based PCs.
|
| Analogously, Microsoft doesn't want to be subject to the
| duopoly of Google and Apple with mobile (gaming), so they want
| their cloud steaming platform available on competitors.
| upon_drumhead wrote:
| I didn't even realize Microsoft had a steaming game service. Is
| it widely used?
| deprecative wrote:
| The UK's rejection of the ActiBlizzKing acquisition was because
| of Microsoft's cloud business.
| jstx1 wrote:
| As a side note, I like how direct and casual these megacorp CEO
| emails are.
| davikr wrote:
| > Sent from Mail for Windows I appreciate the dogfooding.
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