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Reading this makes me think back and draw parallels to the Internet boom and compare that to our current mobile boom. Is it possible that Apple (Mobile) = AOL
by bretpiatt 16y ago
Reading this makes me think back and draw parallels to the Internet boom and compare that to our current mobile boom.
Is it possible that Apple (Mobile) = AOL (Internet)?
--Walled gardens
--Curated content
--Centralized control
For a while there AOL looked unstoppable, much as Apple does now. Can Apple navigate the errors that AOL made? I'm not certain, but I'm also not certain enough they'll mess it up that I want to go short $AAPL with some 5 year out options either.
- pyre 16y agoI don't know. I think that Apple has their 'shit together' a lot more than AOL ever did. I don't know if the parallel between them fully applies. Though it's very possible that the 'fall of Apple' is that their success has always been reliant on the leadership of Steve Jobs. Without him (death, retirement, etc), the ship might be sunk.