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Apple was absolutely an industry leader before the 2000s. Which leaders exactly have been knocked off their perches?
by jprete 3y ago
Apple 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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