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Would you call Apple "industry leaders" pre-2000s, though? But anyway, they didn't specify all industry leaders, and it's pretty solid that many leaders were k
by swores 3y ago
Would you call Apple "industry leaders" pre-2000s, though?
But anyway, they didn't specify all industry leaders, and it's pretty solid that many leaders were knocked off their perches.
- jprete 3y agoApple was absolutely an industry leader before the 2000s. Which leaders exactly have been knocked off their perches?
- bshimmin 3y agoYahoo ("once the most popular web site in the U.S.", according to Wikipedia)?
- lapcat 3y agoYahoo was more of a slow decline, and missed opportunities. They could have actually acquired Google and/or Facebook at one point, and could have been acquired by Microsoft at a later point. The comment talks about "quickly changes the world around us rather fundamentally", "knocked off their perch", and "within a few years", which doesn't seem like an accurate description of what happened with Yahoo.
- gabereiser 3y agoYahoo, Compuserve, AOL, Gateway Computers, Nokia, SEGA, Blockbuster, KMart, and countless more medium-large business that didn't have a strategy for the technology shift.
- swores 3y agoYes, good list, and plenty of others too like Blackberry, Palm, Digg, MySpace, IBM, Blockbuster, etc etc
- gabereiser 3y agofriendster, napster, yellow pages, arcades, Pontiac, Saturn, JNCO, geocities, iomega, Sun Microsystems, CREATIVE. So many bodies...
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoAnd DEC.
- Sindisil 3y agoIf Kmart is on the list, Sears obviously should be as well.
- gabereiser 3y agoFor sure, these are just a sample of companies that failed to maneuver the tech disruption or economic shifts.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoDEC was a major tech and originator of a lot of very important tech, and they got gobbled up in the late 90s.
- cinntaile 3y agoFrom the phone era... Nokia, Blackberry, Motorola, Palm, Ericson...
- Macha 3y agoThat's not the question was asked though. Sure, they were an industry leader in the 70s/80s but in the period 1990-2005? It's hard to claim they really were. It's one of the rare examples of a fallen giant getting back on their feet, most just slowly dissolve over a few decades. AT&T is the only other such example that comes to mind.
- rootusrootus 3y ago> AT&T is the only other such example that comes to mind. If you're talking about the current AT&T, then I'd argue it's not a great example. The relationship between old AT&T and the company currently calling itself AT&T is tenuous. It would be more accurate to say the brand name survived, because it has good name recognition value.
- 876978095789789 3y agoIBM, DEC, Sun MicroSystems, SGI.
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