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Can you think of a notable example when they weren’t?
by munchler 5y ago
Can you think of a notable example when they weren’t?
- popcube 5y agostackoverflow? I mean, there still are many people.
- munchler 5y agoI think it’s still too early to judge the SO purchase, but I agree that it hasn’t been a problem so far.
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- mtnGoat 5y agofacebook, zuck took all the investor money but maintained all the control.
- missedthecue 5y agoAnything bought by Microsoft in the past 10 years. Minecraft, Github, LinkedIn, all are better products today than they were at the time of sale.
- Lammy 5y agoSounds like the attention of those properties' users is worth more in some other metric than the maintenance/improvements cost in engineer time. I wonder what.
- toyg 5y agoMinecraft drives actual profits on consoles - you have to subscribe to play with your friends. Some of these consoles (XBox) are even directly owned by MS. Github is a massive piece in the developer ecosystem. It drives adoption of other MS products that can integrate with it, and generates a lot of goodwill towards MS. LinkedIn, eh, that's probably the weakest property. On the other hand, it's massive in the enterprise space - again lots of goodwill, this time from "suits", and maybe some cool metrics about hiring.
- im3w1l 5y agoLinkedin has premium account tiers for recruiters. Now I haven't seen any of the numbers, but the business model does pass the sniff test.
- seph-reed 5y ago> Minecraft Take it back! Seriously though, I remember MC before it was a kids game. It was already becoming one by the time Microsoft bought it, but since then almost every update has been gimmicks for kids. The world generation is still ridiculous (jungles next to arctics), the weather patterns are binary (hard rain, or nothing), and proximity chat is practically impossible. They've made a lot of money off making it into a kids game, but I personally haven't been delighted by any updates since they took it over.
- jkelleyrtp 5y agoIf it's any consolation, there are really good mods for proximity voice chat and jungles next to arctics is being fixed in the next major update. I don’t quite agree that every update has been gimmicks for kids - I can’t really point to a “childish” new mechanic added. Maybe your perception of the game has changed?
- InitialLastName 5y agoYou only just got under the wire with that 10-year cutoff; MS purchased Skype in May 2011.
- Aeolun 5y agoNot sure if this goes for LinkedIn, but I agree with the others.