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It does look pretty tragic at this point. But it’s worth noting that every tech business so far was talked about as if it’s taken over the world, forever, and w
by zpeti 6y ago
It does look pretty tragic at this point. But it’s worth noting that every tech business so far was talked about as if it’s taken over the world, forever, and without 5-10-20 years they were overtaken. IBM, Intel, Microsoft.
I think google is overplaying their hand in many areas, and this will inevitably lead to the downfall of their dominance. Just like most other large businesses in history.
- alangibson 6y agoI'd argue that they tend not to lose on their home turf, but rather the ground moves under them. Google only increased it's hold in the web as Facebook took the new territory of social media. Likewise Microsoft still is a massive player in enterprise software even as AWS became a virtual synonym for cloud computing.
- PaulHoule 6y agoAzure actually has significant market share. An interesting thing I have noticed is that Amazon has made staggeringly little progress at user facing SaaS -- think salesforce.com. I went to an AWS conference years ago and the gap between the speaker's enthusiasm for zocalo and the crowd that couldn't care less (e.g. The crowd that was pumped for IAM and T2 instances) was striking.
- freedrock87 6y agoSo another large company will take them over. We need to legislate this now to avoid this endless cycle
- creddit 6y agoWhy?
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- alangibson 6y agoBecause monocultures are intrensically unhealthy. Ironically though they're very profitable for as long as they last.
- nightcracker 6y agoMicrosoft is overtaken by who exactly? In desktop & laptop Windows still holds a 87% market share.
- innocenat 6y agoBack then Windows is >90% of all consumer computing devices. Right now it's 87% of just desktop & laptop.
- nightcracker 6y agoI don't think it's a fair comparison. Microsoft still dominates the exact same market they did before (desktop & laptop), with roughly the same market share. What you're describing is a new market bundled with the old market. "Consumer computing devices" is such a vague market. If you study markets at such a big scope something like Texas Instruments wouldn't even make a blip while if you're paying more careful attention you'll find they absolutely dominate the scientific calculator market.
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- crispyporkbites 6y agoMicrosoft are an absolute beast, their revenue is diversified across so many areas in b2c and b2b, and they are selling real products / services that solve problems that people actually need and pay for. Contrast that with fb/google who are selling ad space for others to buy to fill with actual products, it’s clear who’s driving real value. I would bet that MS will outlast all the other tech giants by a long way.
- avh02 6y agoI'm by no means Google's biggest fan but this definitely misrepresents things it offers such as gsuite
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