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AOL had a particular mismanagement problem that Google doesn't have. AOL didn't lack depth: they literally had email (@aol.com), social media (AIM), video-call
by curiousllama 6y ago
AOL had a particular mismanagement problem that Google doesn't have.
AOL didn't lack depth: they literally had email (@aol.com), social media (AIM), video-calling (Vonage), cloud filesharing (Xdrive) and so much more.
Ultimately, they failed because (1) they were overvalued to begin with and (2) had a bad innovation model (top-down) that led them to (a) over-commit to online ads and (b) under-commit to broadband.
Google is sustainable & mature, and it has a distributed innovation model that will avoid the particular mistakes of AOL.
Google is reacting to the Walled Garden trend, not driving it.
- jacquesm 6y ago> Google is reacting to the Walled Garden trend, not driving it. I could follow you right up to that bit.
- wnevets 6y agoFacebook and Apple have been driving those trends for well over a decade.
- curiousllama 6y agoYea, actually fair, bit of a non-sequitur. I meant to say that Google is well-positioned to take advantage of being a Walled Garden, and is doing so now because the model is being built out out elsewhere, both domestically (Apple, Amazon) and abroad (WeChat, Jio).