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Google was already next when they missed the social media boat. That said, Microsoft is still the second most valuable company in the world a decade after miss
by wilsonnb3 4y ago
Google was already next when they missed the social media boat.
That said, Microsoft is still the second most valuable company in the world a decade after missing out on mobile, so it doesn't really seem like a big deal.
- ignite 4y agoI certainly didn't kill Microsoft, but it's tens of billions of dollars they didn't get. It's significant, even at Microsoft's scale.
- chipgap98 4y agoThere is also opportunity cost though. Maybe if they succeeded in mobile then they would have missed Teams. Its hard to say that the side effects from missing that wave were exclusively negative.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoUsing Teams as a not negative example is very odd.
- chipgap98 4y agoThey have crushed Slack with Teams and it is the backbone of their enterprise offering. Am I missing something?
- lotsofpulp 4y agoI am referring to the near universal opinion that Teams is shit software that is only worth forcing employees to use because it is free.
- bombcar 4y agoArguably Microsoft is actually well-placed to continually miss major advancements in areas they should be king in (or adjacent to them) and yet continue.
- xiphias2 4y agoQuite the opposite. If they have owned mobile + desktop, they could have a much stronger integration, and we wouldn't be Google first with our apps.
- chipgap98 4y agoYeah that's a good point with regards to integration. I still think the Microsoft that wins in mobile looks very different from the Microsoft we know today.
- neffy 4y agoAnd this is Google's core business. Nothing came along yet that replaced corporate use of microsoft office, and that is were they make most of their money.
- wvenable 4y agoIt's a big deal. It's just that Microsoft has lots of other businesses. They could have had a billion dollar mobile business too, but they don't.
- Tepix 4y agoGoogle has YouTube.
- rchaud 4y agoHow did they miss the boat when they have YouTube? I assume by 'social media' you mean "user-generated content that we can slap ads on". Facebook doesn't make any money when people talk to each other, they make it when people click ads. Same goes for Google. "Social Media" is just another ad vector.