It's kind of amazing how much Google has squandered.
Let's set software aside for a second, and look at hardware. They essentiualy sat on one of the only "market ready" competitors to Nvidia GPUs (TPUs) for years, instead of selling and distributing them. They could have been eating some of Nvidia's pie right now if they were slightly less monopolistic and short-sighted.
I would kill (and pay money) to have a TPU in my desktop right now. I'd have contributed to all sorts of ML projects with it. But nope.
Same with the Pixel. What an incredibly dominant position for them to be on, only to... make it boring, expensive, and copy other phone designs.
