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IBM and GE are still around. Doesn't mean they haven't irreversibly peaked.

• danaris 4y ago
  Yeah; I think far, far too many people think that the decline of a company like Google would look like a near-immediate collapse into either irrelevance or outright destruction. That's not remotely realistic. It's much more likely to look like what's happened to IBM since the rise of personal computing: its special "no one ever got fired for buying it" status goes away, and while it may linger as a company that still provides a product and/or service to other companies (those it's managed to make itself indispensable to), it may shrink, and its popular image fade, for a number of years. Given the differences in Google's portfolio vs IBM's, I'd say there is more of a chance that Google would eventually collapse down to nothing, or nearly so, but it would still take a good while for that to happen.