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How exactly does he expect the internet to consolidate like the PC industry? How can the internet consolidate?

by ghc 15y ago

byoung2 15y ago
How exactly does he expect the internet to consolidate like the PC industry? How can the internet consolidate? He said the internet industry would consolidate like the PC industry did. We can see that happening already, with the trend of big companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft acquiring smaller companies to fill voids in their product offerings, talent pool, etc. Google is the definite poster child for consolidation, having bought YouTube, DoubleClick, GrandCentral, etc.
mattmanser 15y ago
It's happening already. Salesforce is buying up a bunch of different online b2b tools. Google is trying Google+, integrated Google Voice. Skype and MS. Facebook places. Games are growing on social networks instead of standalone flash game sites. Techcrunch is bought by AOL.
- jbjohns 15y ago
  So what? New ones also spring up and sometimes the new ones are big enough to eat the old ones. From what I can see, the market is in a continuous state of expand->consolidate->repeat.
wisty 15y ago
Simple. Everyone standardizes on the same OS (Linux, or maybe Windows if you want .Net or MSSQL) and the same infrastructure (EC2 or equivalent). Then you run your apps on there. Facebook and Twitter are becoming infrastructure too (or at least, their login systems are), but not necessarily profitable ones. Sure, they'll tell the advertisers that I'm a left-handed avocado farmer in New Orleans, but it will be the content providers who'll know when I'm looking for a book of funny kitten jokes
jbigelow76 15y ago
What I'm wondering is, how do more and smaller startups equate to eventual consolidation? His preference seems to be that engineers would elect to become agents or enablers of consolidation by joining the very companies that have the scale to consolidate a market. His two points don't seem to have any intersection that I can see.
- forzano 15y ago
  "What I'm wondering is, how do more and smaller startups equate to eventual consolidation?" It doesn't, if anything it slows down any eventuality of it. He's saying it does to try and scare talent on the fence and talent that has already gone the startup route by saying its a misguided and futile effot. Ask yourself this, if this big companies werent hurting because of these loses, would they waste time making the comments in the first place? Its cheaper to try scare tactics then to offer them more money.

How exactly does he expect the internet to consolidate like the PC industry? How can the internet consolidate?

by ghc 15y ago

How exactly does he expect the internet to consolidate like the PC industry? How can the internet consolidate?

How exactly does he expect the internet to consolidate like the PC industry? How can the internet consolidate? He said the internet industry would consolidate like the PC industry did. We can see that happening already, with the trend of big companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft acquiring smaller companies to fill voids in their product offerings, talent pool, etc. Google is the definite poster child for consolidation, having bought YouTube, DoubleClick, GrandCentral, etc.

mattmanser 15y ago

It's happening already. Salesforce is buying up a bunch of different online b2b tools. Google is trying Google+, integrated Google Voice. Skype and MS. Facebook places. Games are growing on social networks instead of standalone flash game sites. Techcrunch is bought by AOL.

jbjohns 15y ago
So what? New ones also spring up and sometimes the new ones are big enough to eat the old ones. From what I can see, the market is in a continuous state of expand->consolidate->repeat.

wisty 15y ago

Simple. Everyone standardizes on the same OS (Linux, or maybe Windows if you want .Net or MSSQL) and the same infrastructure (EC2 or equivalent). Then you run your apps on there. Facebook and Twitter are becoming infrastructure too (or at least, their login systems are), but not necessarily profitable ones. Sure, they'll tell the advertisers that I'm a left-handed avocado farmer in New Orleans, but it will be the content providers who'll know when I'm looking for a book of funny kitten jokes

jbigelow76 15y ago

What I'm wondering is, how do more and smaller startups equate to eventual consolidation? His preference seems to be that engineers would elect to become agents or enablers of consolidation by joining the very companies that have the scale to consolidate a market. His two points don't seem to have any intersection that I can see.

forzano 15y ago
"What I'm wondering is, how do more and smaller startups equate to eventual consolidation?" It doesn't, if anything it slows down any eventuality of it. He's saying it does to try and scare talent on the fence and talent that has already gone the startup route by saying its a misguided and futile effot. Ask yourself this, if this big companies werent hurting because of these loses, would they waste time making the comments in the first place? Its cheaper to try scare tactics then to offer them more money.