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at D9: According to eric at D9, these are the top consumer companies 1-4-the gang of four(appl,google,amazon,facebook) 5-6(paypal,twitter) Schmidt said he beli
by pycassa 15y ago
at D9:
According to eric at D9, these are the top consumer companies
1-4-the gang of four(appl,google,amazon,facebook)
5-6(paypal,twitter)
Schmidt said he believes Microsoft is “not driving the consumer revolution.” He doesn’t count Microsoft’s Xbox business because it’s “not a platform at the computational level.”
today before congress:
Microsoft's Bing has continued to gain in popularity, perhaps because it comes pre-installed as the search default on over 70 percent of new computers sold. Microsoft's Bing is the exclusive search provider for Yahoo! and Facebook. Microsoft recently signed a deal for Bing to power English language search on the fast-rising Chinese search engine Baidu, which Baidu has acknowledged will help it become more competitive in markets outside of China. In addition to Internet Explorer, Microsoft has integrated Bing into its popular gaming console, the Xbox 360, which it is in talks with cable companies to convert into the set-top box of the future. Microsoft?s Bing launched in June 2009 and has grown so rapidly that some commentators have speculated that it could overtake Google as early as 2012.
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- MikeCapone 15y agoIndeed, but one is comparing the consumer tech market as a whole and the other is just in the search market, so this isn't apples to apples (so to speak), no?
- pycassa 15y agowhen bing alone can challenge google's core business, isn't putting the whole microsoft after twitter and paypal as a consumer tech company silly?
- kenjackson 15y agoReally? Microsoft does: Bing -- second largest search engine XBox -- one of the largest gaming platforms, including Indie games. Windows -- most popular consumer OS Halo -- one of the most popular game franchises ever Kinect -- hottest selling consumer electronics gadget ever Windows Live Messenger -- most popular IM platform in the world Hotmail -- one of the largest email sites in the world IE -- one of the most popular web browsers in the world Metro -- one of the most interesting consumer UIs currently available And all this puts them behind -- Twitter? Really?
- kamaal 15y agoI guess that's the whole problem, Microsoft wants to be everything to everybody. Now just compare the same with Apple. They don't have 1/10th the product line as Microsoft and are still more successful. Focus is important here, when you do so many things and none of them properly you are ultimately in a situation where all your products are weak quality wise. There are always better alternatives in the market and people will feel compelled to switch to them. Imagine this happening with most of your products. Ultimately the whole ecosystem gets weaker. Even though your numbers may be looking good due to volume, that doesn't tell the whole story. Slowly your competitors one by one will drive you out of the market.
- kenjackson 15y agoNow just compare the same with Apple. They don't have 1/10th the product line as Microsoft and are still more successful. The Apple comparison is a red herring. Apple is unique, not only to the computer industry, but virtually all industries. No other company has risen so quickly, from so low, on a few products. To put it another way, if you take Apple out of the equation, MS appears favorable to just about every other company in the industry. From SAP, to HP, to Google, to Facebook, to Twitter, to EA, to DropBox, to Oracle.