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"Apart from all the many succesful products, everything they did was a failure" is an empty statement which can be applied to any company. So yes, you can say t
by fancyfredbot 3y ago
"Apart from all the many succesful products, everything they did was a failure" is an empty statement which can be applied to any company. So yes, you can say that about Alphabet. You can also mention that they have a market cap of $1.8 trillion and are the fourth most valuable company in the world.
- bluetomcat 3y agoTheir successful products are vertically-integrated to provide a walled "convenient" experience to users. You use an Android smartphone to open their browser, searching for stuff and viewing ads, using Maps to find the location of businesses appearing in the ads. The rest of their contributions are welcome side-effects that have enabled running that software and hardware infrastructure.
- Apocryphon 3y agoAmazon, Apple, Meta, heck Microsoft and IBM in their heydays all do this. All of tech does this.
- EasyMark 3y agoMeta doesn't really belong in there, not much vertical integration there, it's very horizontal with instagram, whatsapp, facebook, threads (lol!) serving similar and sometimes overlapping audiences. They don't really provide a service beyond social media (unless you count the OSS / free software they release for devs)
- parthdesai 3y ago> Their successful products are vertically-integrated to provide a walled "convenient" experience to users Isn't that a selling point of Apple ecosystem as well? Everything just works