If Google didnt have their ad buisness theiy'd be out by now. They're like BlackBerry and Nokia at this point almost.
And YouTube, and Cloud, and Play Store, and Waymo, not to mention that they could coast on their Anthropic and SpaceX stakes if they didn't have any of the above.
Maps, Waymo, TPUs, YouTube, Docs, GMail, Cloud, Android, Chrome, Photos...
They remind me of Kodak inventing the digital camera and sitting on it to preserve their film business.
Not sure what your comment mean in the context of parent's comment.
As opposed to what, them not having it and burning money that isn't their instead like openai and anthropic? At least Google is feeding itself instead of having to create a bubble to stay alive