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You can almost feel bad for VCs who think that their little startups will compete in the productivity space. Amazon, Microsoft and Apple remove all enterprise
by bearjaws 2y ago
You can almost feel bad for VCs who think that their little startups will compete in the productivity space.
Amazon, Microsoft and Apple remove all enterprise barriers to entry, no startup can even remotely compete with this. They can take your ideas and implement them far faster than previously possible, why use some ambiguous startup when you can just wait a year for the Google integrated solution.
Combine that with Google and Apple's hardware dominance, companies like Rabbit and Humane are toast. They will make an app or hardware that out competes in a year. "Teenage Engineering" is cool and all, but a vibrant orange body isn't going to compete with a vertically integrated organization with true AI resources.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoVibrant orange body?
- brevitea 2y agohttps://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-r1 https://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-r1
- brevitea 2y ago... you mean, giant corporations are dominant in an "anti-competitive" or "anti-trust" manner? huh...
- trilobyte 2y agoIt's just momentum at this point. They don't even have to play any of the traditional anti-trust / monopoly games that companies of yore did. Look at AWS and the Elasticsearch situation. Amazon didn't really do anything other than take an open source product, freely distributed, and run it as a service and profit from it. We can debate the morals of it, but it's a far cry from being proactively anti-competitive.