Ten years ago everyone talked about the burst of the Bubble, about how Microsoft would dominate the world, although Linux was growing, nobody saw it fighting fo

Ten years ago everyone talked about the burst of the Bubble, about how Microsoft would dominate the world, although Linux was growing, nobody saw it fighting for prominence in various areas, nobody saw the the prominence of Facebook in the network (or even the idea of social network), nobody saw the rise of Apple, only a small fraction saw virtualization as a game changer in the industry, the majority of players in the field were already there 10 years ago (Parallels and VMware) or came out of nowhere (Xen, Qumranet and Virtualbox). Now the buzz is that Apple or Google will dominate, but real people are there, working anonymously in the next revolution, in the next previously unthought idea, time will come when Apple will not be so shiny, maybe 10 or 20 years from now, maybe even longer, this industry (consumer electronics and its sub-industries) have only a small history, yet there were cases of powerful companies going from heaven to hell in question of years, cases of previously anonymous players leading the directions of the industry, so I kindly disagree that Apple or Google will be the only companies in the new decade, maybe there are some unheard, powerful and new technology, but as Microsoft suffered to understand there are more things shaping the industry than just power and money. But besides of that, you got an upvote from me.