This analysis just feels totally off to me. Google didn't miss anything with MapReduce and TensorFlow. So what that Hadoop and PyTorch came out and became open source favorites? It's not like that had any significant negative business impact to Google. On the flip side, Google's open sourcing of Kubernetes did win the container orchestration "war" (RIP Mesos), and it's not like that brought them any great benefits.
I agree with another commenter, where Google missed the boat was cloud. Ironically, AppEngine came out pretty early in 2008, but its original incarnation was much too "Google-specific". Google just didn't have the corporate DNA to understand that, sure, Datastore can allow infinite horizontal scalability, but most people don't want to deal with eventual consistency, and they just want a plain-old SQL DB. It took Google a long time to come around to understand how other businesses use their infrastructure.
I agree with another commenter, where Google missed the boat was cloud. Ironically, AppEngine came out pretty early in 2008, but its original incarnation was much too "Google-specific". Google just didn't have the corporate DNA to understand that, sure, Datastore can allow infinite horizontal scalability, but most people don't want to deal with eventual consistency, and they just want a plain-old SQL DB. It took Google a long time to come around to understand how other businesses use their infrastructure.