Google owns the stuff you make during 20% time, iirc, so they use it as a feeder for new products.
Allegedly (I can't verify, but can't see why they'd lie) GMail, Google Maps and AdSense were all born out of people's 20% time and Google just swooped in and turned them into full on products.
It might be worth staying #3 in cloud if they could pull off products like that again. I can't help but notice that those products are all old, though.
Allegedly (I can't verify, but can't see why they'd lie) GMail, Google Maps and AdSense were all born out of people's 20% time and Google just swooped in and turned them into full on products.
It might be worth staying #3 in cloud if they could pull off products like that again. I can't help but notice that those products are all old, though.