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It feels like big tech companies enforce a vicious cycle on the software landscape. Step 0: Someone has a good idea and builds a solid product around it. Step
by notsapiensatall 4y ago
It feels like big tech companies enforce a vicious cycle on the software landscape.
Step 0: Someone has a good idea and builds a solid product around it.
Step 1: BigCo sees the new growth budding out of the software landscape.
Step 2a: BigCo buys the new property, refuses to take risks with their new acquisition, and eventually shutters it when it stops printing money.
Step 2b: BigCo sues the new entrant into the ground.
Step 2c: BigCo launches a competitor/fork, gains market share by operating it at a loss, then shutters it when it fails to turn a profit.
Step 3: Innovation is stifled, start over.
- 1ark 4y agoSeen it so many times as a customer of startups. “This is an awesome SaaS!” Then they sell it to BigCo, and less than a year later it is at best loosely integrated or worse sunset. Innovation and this form of capitalism is not a good match if we value innovation as a society. Probably that is also why we read so many comments saying “We did this 20 years ago with…” here when new tech is released. A long repeating cycle where only scraps of innovation is kept.