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I don’t think breaking them up is the only option- we need to continue to create innovative companies that defeat the incumbents. Its hard to see right now but
by crispyporkbites 6y ago
I don’t think breaking them up is the only option- we need to continue to create innovative companies that defeat the incumbents.
Its hard to see right now but history tells us it will come and they will fall, every incumbent always gets complacent and stops innovating and someone comes and cleans up. For example YT hasn’t fundamentally changed in a decade, and the user experience is starting to feel a little off (sponsored content, a gamed recommendation algorithm etc. are all degrading the experience).
I don’t know how / where we’ll consume the bulk of our video in 2030, but there’s a significant chance it won’t be YouTube.
- judge2020 6y agoThe absolute scale YouTube runs at makes me thing nobody else could foot the bill for it other than whoever the current biggest Advertisement giant is.
- harpratap 6y agoIf the last electrical/electronics boom is any indicator, it will take a century for these giants to die. Sony is ~75 years old and still going strong. Hitachi, Panasonic, Samsung are all more than 100 years old.
- crispyporkbites 6y agoThey are diversified across a bazillion revenue streams though. And they operate more like 20-30 separate companies under one big brand name. Panasonic can fail at entire industry and succeed elsewhere to survive- if Google search goes away Google would die