I'm okay with Google offering models, but I'm not okay with Google offering more PaaS offerings.

Let developers use your models and tools and build stuff with it. Why own everything.

Google has too much already and in my opinion they have no business owning a gaming platform.

yipinwong an hour ago | parent | next [-]

With your logic, Google should give us their search logic/libraries, so we can build our own search engines.

You ain't making sense. Companies need $, and what's wrong with what they do with what they own and can do in this particular case?

	▲	hmokiguess 20 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nothing wrong with me having an opinion on their strategy My logic is not “don’t make money” but more so pick a lane They can empower the community and let a PaaS emerge that’s locked in on their APIs for example For example, did Shopify get into building Marketplaces for E-commerce? No It isn’t like they would not be able to make money from the gaming industry by being just the layer zero, my beef here is that they’re going one layer up
	▲	underlipton 31 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		>With your logic, Google should give us their search logic/libraries, so we can build our own search engines. Yes. Google does not actually care about search anymore, and the threat that the technology could disappear altogether is real.

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bko 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't know, it seems like it's just fun thing to play around with. I don't think serious things are meant to be built on this.

I often want to play simple games like Pacman, space invader, breakout, tetris or some other random iteration. Sometimes there are non-spammy simple versions of this game but often there aren't. This seems like a pretty cool fix. And if they disappear in the future, who cares?

	▲	hmokiguess an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's precisely how something ends up becoming ubiquitous. You, and everyone else, start having fun on it and then suddenly it's a locked-in platform monetized by them. YouTube started exactly how you described it, some silly thing not meant to be serious and today powers multiple 100M+ businesses using it for content to reach mass audiences.
	▲	xnx an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> I don't think serious things are meant to be built on this. I read at some point that projects at Google didn't get a greenlight unless there was a reasonable expectation they could be used directly or indirectly by a billion people.

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pjmlp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because many devs don't pay for tools unless forced otherwise via a network paywall.