One of the recurring themes in the technology industry is that very successful companies become arrogant and start taking unnecessary risks or abusing customers — the two aren’t mutually exclusive. That behavior can accomplish what competitors have failed to do: It can kill them. I was in IBM in the 1980s when it exhibited this behavior, and I wrote a report on Microsoft identifying this same behavior. Yet both of those instances are massively eclipsed by Google, which appears hell-bent on destroying its nearly invulnerable market position.
Google is insulated from industry experience by a youth culture accustomed to always being the brightest. They're going to make some magnificent blunders - they may be resilient enough to survive the humility lessons, but it will be interesting.
It is not unusual to screw your customers which are wholesaleing and bypass them and go direct.
Its evolutionary in that the next manager/owner will do things the previous did not need to do for ego.
Monopoly is a real game. From what I can remember of monopoly, the winner was very lonely, and that is the birth of socialism.
Type 'when sheep ate men'into any search engine and you will see the birth of current socialism.
The earliest lawgivers known, the Babylonians or their precursors, had a law where, when society was too unbalanced they would cancel all debts, slavery and all, and press the restart button.
Mortality is an old game.
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Google's Death Wish
Posted by: Rob Enderle December 9, 2013 05:00 AMOne of the recurring themes in the technology industry is that very successful companies become arrogant and start taking unnecessary risks or abusing customers — the two aren’t mutually exclusive. That behavior can accomplish what competitors have failed to do: It can kill them. I was in IBM in the 1980s when it exhibited this behavior, and I wrote a report on Microsoft identifying this same behavior. Yet both of those instances are massively eclipsed by Google, which appears hell-bent on destroying its nearly invulnerable market position.
Its evolutionary in that the next manager/owner will do things the previous did not need to do for ego.
Monopoly is a real game. From what I can remember of monopoly, the winner was very lonely, and that is the birth of socialism.
Type 'when sheep ate men'into any search engine and you will see the birth of current socialism.
The earliest lawgivers known, the Babylonians or their precursors, had a law where, when society was too unbalanced they would cancel all debts, slavery and all, and press the restart button.
Mortality is an old game.