""Google revenue grew 19% in 2014, down from 21% in 2013, 22% in 2012 and 29% in 2011. But operating expenses grew 31% last year""
I worked at Google's main office in 2013. I am pro Google but I have to question the long term viability of relying mostly on web ads. If I am not programming or writing, then I am on my cellphone - same as most people, a smartphone is the main device I use. I don't like ads on my phone, but they don't bother on a laptop web browser because of the surfeit of screen space.
I imagine mobile phone screens will get larger as flexible displays become popular. I imagine a phone you flip open and an origami screen will unfurl like one of those credit-card sized Tube (subway) maps.
question: why don't you make your browser window smaller?
My laptop's own screen is too tiny to be usable for long periods, which is why I plug in a real screen. But on the real screen, I generally have several different windows open and positioned around the screen. I don't get this idea of "well, so much screen space was being wasted anyway that it doesn't matter if junk gets filled into it". I don't have trouble filling my own screen...?
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I worked at Google's main office in 2013. I am pro Google but I have to question the long term viability of relying mostly on web ads. If I am not programming or writing, then I am on my cellphone - same as most people, a smartphone is the main device I use. I don't like ads on my phone, but they don't bother on a laptop web browser because of the surfeit of screen space.
My laptop's own screen is too tiny to be usable for long periods, which is why I plug in a real screen. But on the real screen, I generally have several different windows open and positioned around the screen. I don't get this idea of "well, so much screen space was being wasted anyway that it doesn't matter if junk gets filled into it". I don't have trouble filling my own screen...?