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Apple, Microsoft and Amazon will be perfectly unperturbed when the so-called “attention economy” goes away. They are real companies offering real goods and serv
by gaius 9y ago
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon will be perfectly unperturbed when the so-called “attention economy” goes away. They are real companies offering real goods and services.
- earenndil 9y agoI don't know about completely. They still all show ads and collect user data. But they will be less affected than some others (google).
- htormey 9y agoI think it will hit them as well, just not to the same extent as Facebook & Google. Microsoft owns LinkedIn, which is an advertising company. I also seem to recall that they make a reasonable chunk of change from search advertising and other online properties. According to this link they took in a little over 6 billion in advertising revenue last year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corporation-ad-revenue/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corpora... According to this link, amazon took in somewhere in the region of 1.7 billion in revenue from mainly advertising last quarter alone: https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corporation-ad-revenue/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/725388/microsoft-corpora...
- ModernMech 9y agoMicrosoft for example has several billion dollar businesses aside from Windows, Office, and enterprise. Their Surface and Xbox hardware, for example, pulls in that much revenue each. They'll be fine.
- donttrack 9y agoYeah, Google and Facebook are not tech companies. They are mainly ad companies run by social justice activists. Their only purpose is to stuff ads down peoples throats.
- gaius 9y agoGoogle could exist in a diminished form off their cloud and office suite. But e.g. GMail is not a viable business without slurping user data.