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Let's examine your thesis by replacing Google with Microsoft in your third last sentence. Microsoft was massively profitable in the 90s. Why did nobody compete
by ajju 18y ago
Let's examine your thesis by replacing Google with Microsoft in your third last sentence.
Microsoft was massively profitable in the 90s. Why did nobody compete with them?
Oh wait, Google did.
Why did they not get crushed like a bug?
Because they innovated.
- nostrademons 18y agoGoogle didn't compete with Microsoft. They took advantage of a shift in the environment that made Microsoft irrelevant. Microsoft is still as dominant in the desktop app world as they ever were. It's just that nobody cares about desktop apps. (And eventually, the same thing will happen to Google and nobody will care about webapps, but not yet...)