https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/google-selects-coinbase-to-take-cloud-payments-with-cryptocurrencies.html Another shitty service that they are about to capitalize on hype then deprecate in 6 months after getting customers
How is this desperate? They made a deal with Coinbase to use their service and in return Coinbase is moving parts of its application to gcp. It’s a win-win
They bought customers. That’s why it’s desperate.
+1 on Boxer, its clear that neither the OP nor Microsoft HR is aware of how the world works. I used to be in Microsoft Cloud and now I'm in Google Cloud, let me tell you something, it's a super common thing to be a customer of your customer and sometimes even the most fierce competitions are each other's customers. That's how the business world works, if you don't get it you belong outside of business and should probably not make uneducated comments.
So Google is going to deprecate... Coinbase?
The hype over crypto was last year. Nothing to capitalise now.
Which is why it sounds desperate. Like they really needed to close the deal with coinbase, especially since coinbase is already on AWS. It seems more like a sales influence than a customer influence
That was probably in talk for years :) Crypto and stocks will go back up at some point.
I once had GCP sales reps take me on a demo of one of their API products. The dashboard hung and froze multiple times with random errors 🤡 When you can't code a dashboard it's time to give up.
I don’t see what is for Google to lose here? 1. Google will gain business of Coinbase application away from AWS. Big win for them, loss for AWS. 2. In return Google says they will allow subset of customers pay with digital currencies. That subset can be 0.5%-1% for long time lol. And then if they don’t like they can pull the plug on the acceptance of crypto but applications traffic from Counbase will already have moved to Google cloud, typically difficult to move away. Cha-Ching!
What GCP is lacking now is customer trust. It sucks when customers will not know what GCP is going to back track on. Same thing with iot and gaming. I see a lot of building custom integrations on this
I just didn't see Google make such drastic decisions to close a deal. Everyone does PR but this is crazy
Finally! A cloud provider that will take shitcoins as payment
It's weird that people attach personal modifiers to services like GCP. Why is there a big hate train on the platform, as if it personally offended or hurt y'all in some way. Cogs in machines dissing each other for the most trivial shit is weird
I’m a HUGE crypto skeptic. Like as big as they get. I’m not a blockchain skeptic however. Betting on blockchain is a good long term bet.
If people will pay up for Gucci and Prada when the same or near equivalent can be had for 80% less then I believe in crypto in similar fashion. Crypto buyers in the past few months actually came out ahead since it’s been a little stable meanwhile currencies like gbp took a huge dive. Europeans might want to get out of that loop by buying some btc
What’s the benefit of paying through crypto ?
I'm sure you'll make it through the interview next time!
Wow
Is gatekeeping all Googlers have to hold onto?