The newest of those are 20 years old.

Let’s be honest. Google was amazing back then, now they’re just an ad-business flailing around in other side quests.

GCP/Vertex, Firebase, Spanner, Waymo, Gemini + Nano Banana, Google Photos, TPUs, Pixel, Assistant, Google Fi, Taara...

Most of those are also at least a decade old, and some of them are acquisitions.

Every single one of these hemorrhages money from their ad business

Gmail is going to be Google's System/390 mainframes.

People used to say the same thing about Microsoft with Windows you know...