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*when he has stopped being financially reliant on it. Facebook, Twitter, and Google, all had alternative paths where they make significantly less money but are
by tmp_anon_22 5y ago
*when he has stopped being financially reliant on it.
Facebook, Twitter, and Google, all had alternative paths where they make significantly less money but are much more of a positive influence on the internet and society at large. They chose money - and here we are. I struggle to think of a single organization (even Mozilla) in their class of company that did NOT choose the money. And it makes me think the financial structure of all these companies forces them from conception to use the money path.
- prepend 5y agoIt’s arguable whether apple would have made more money by reducing the price on their devices and maximizing ad revenue from customer behavior (ie android). I kind of feel like they made their decisions based on Jobs’ hardware profit margins strategy that worked well before service or data profit margins. Also, although not a company I feel like Apache has turned down multiple opportunities to sell out and kept to their principles.