For me, this puts all those axed programs into a bit of perspective. With a profit margin of 21% of a whopping 60B dollars, it kind of doesn't really matter how profitable a program is if it can't grow big enough to make an impact on that. A couple of millions just won't matter to google.
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For me, this puts all those axed programs into a bit of perspective. With a profit margin of 21% of a whopping 60B dollars, it kind of doesn't really matter how profitable a program is if it can't grow big enough to make an impact on that. A couple of millions just won't matter to google.