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And some are old enough to have read millions of predictions of death of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google and FB.
by blackoil 4y ago
And some are old enough to have read millions of predictions of death of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google and FB.
- FullyFunctional 4y agoand Sun, Netscape, etc. Just because some of these predictions didn't happen doesn't mean a lot of them did. Sun Microsystems appeared solid. Apple _did_ almost die. IBM is only a shadow of their former self (IMO, the original IBM _did_ die). FB and Google are still young in comparison. I have no stake in either, but IMO Google is more likely to survive than FB. FWIW, both have high quality staff that will bail if the growth stalls.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThe old IBM really just sold itself off in little pieces. What's left is a few pieces that have no idea what they want to be but they just keep doing what they do because the brand name assures them customers.
- pjmlp 4y agoSome of which we were actually right about. By the way, Apple only survived thanks to Microsoft money and being reverse acquired by NeXT.