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I thought many times about world domination of these companies in each of these 4 areas which started their significant presence from year 2000 onwards . Searc
by LrnByTeach 9y ago
I thought many times about world domination of these companies in each of these 4 areas which started their significant presence from year 2000 onwards .
Search - Google
Shopping - Amazon
Social - Facebook
Mobile - Apple ( Apple mobile journey started only after year 2000)
>The opportunity for creating "new large web companies" has been shut by the entrenched TRIO.
> Now it's Amazon, Google or Facebook.
> That means that FB was probably the last "web" or "app" big IPO.
> Even Yelp is withering.
> Just like it has been impossible to start a new car or airliner manufacturer since the 1920s (except for Tesla), the opportunity for creating new large web companies has been shut by the entrenched trio.
- Fej 9y agoApple does not dominate mobile by any stretch of the imagination, with about 15% market share. Google, on the other hand, is creeping up to monopoly status with Android and its roughly 85% market share.
- askafriend 9y ago15%-20% marketshare in the smartphone category and yet they capture ~90% of the profits. To me, that's definitely a type of domination.