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AT&T and IBM in 1985 = Microsoft and Intel in 2005 = Facebook and Google in 2025 There are always differences, of course, no analogy is perfect, but this is th
by rossdavidh 6y ago
AT&T and IBM in 1985 = Microsoft and Intel in 2005 = Facebook and Google in 2025
There are always differences, of course, no analogy is perfect, but this is the basic pattern.
Note that AT&T and IBM both fell from alpha predator status, but ended up in very different places, and the same is true of Microsoft and Intel, so Facebook and Google will both fall, but how far is not so easy to say.
- cbozeman 6y agoWhat's truly pathetic about AT&T is that all they had to do to maintain dominance was take the literally hundreds of billions of dollars they were given in tax breaks over the past several decades and build out fiber to every home in America. The mismanagement of AT&T should be a course at Harvard Business School.