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I went into this article expecting to get mad, but it's actually quite reasonable: just like how incredibly rare it is that Microsoft releases something as capi

by jmduke 13y ago

I went into this article expecting to get mad, but it's actually quite reasonable: just like how incredibly rare it is that Microsoft releases something as capital-i important as Windows, the odds are against companies one-upping the innovations that vaulted them into success. That doesn't mean they're destined to failure or even to obscurity: but innovation favors the young. (Somewhat ironically, I think Google has consistently shown the highest level of daring and innovation, as seen from things like Project Loon and the things that could totally restructure a first-world society, like self-driving cars or Google Glass -- and yet, they have the highest peak to climb, as I don't think any piece of technology [besides maybe Wikipedia] changed the world quite as much as search.)

l33tbro 13y ago
Same. Pretty decent. But it flogs its point a bit too hard. I find 'Peak' a bit of a 2004 buzz-word. I mean, the trinity the author speaks of are megalithic corps now on a downward trajectory. Agree with you that Google is the stayer. Page is streets ahead of Zuckerberg (Gates-lite) and Cook (a caretaker at best). The potency of Apple and FB will dissipate, but Brin and Page will remain fairly vitalic. One only has to look at the relatively Kurzweil hire to see that the Google spirit of old remains somewhat unfettered by the billions in loot. Personally find the blogger's writing and ideas a bit second-rate, reaching out to the giants (Fukiyama, Moore) yet making no case for a reason not to "panic". As for his call for FB and Google employees to "exodus" and bring about change - seems rather mad and deluded. The shape-shifters are the hungry ones like Karp and Spiegel, not the Apple desk-jockeys and Facebook inner-circle.
nish1500 13y ago
Google dares. MS and Apple compete within their domain. Googles keeps on expanding its domain to solve the problems of other industries. MS and Apple are software / hardware companies. Google is a technology company.

by jmduke 13y ago

l33tbro 13y ago

Same. Pretty decent. But it flogs its point a bit too hard. I find 'Peak' a bit of a 2004 buzz-word. I mean, the trinity the author speaks of are megalithic corps now on a downward trajectory. Agree with you that Google is the stayer. Page is streets ahead of Zuckerberg (Gates-lite) and Cook (a caretaker at best). The potency of Apple and FB will dissipate, but Brin and Page will remain fairly vitalic. One only has to look at the relatively Kurzweil hire to see that the Google spirit of old remains somewhat unfettered by the billions in loot. Personally find the blogger's writing and ideas a bit second-rate, reaching out to the giants (Fukiyama, Moore) yet making no case for a reason not to "panic". As for his call for FB and Google employees to "exodus" and bring about change - seems rather mad and deluded. The shape-shifters are the hungry ones like Karp and Spiegel, not the Apple desk-jockeys and Facebook inner-circle.

nish1500 13y ago

Google dares. MS and Apple compete within their domain. Googles keeps on expanding its domain to solve the problems of other industries. MS and Apple are software / hardware companies. Google is a technology company.