Tech monopolies tend not to fall like Rome. They fall like Venice. They’re still there, and no-one actually invades them, but the trade routes moved, the things that gave them power and wealth stop mattering, and they become just another city, and then a backwater.
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Apple is sitting on, what, 200+ billion cash? It can acquihire almost anyone for a long, long time. My point isn't that shifts don't happen but when they do, they are slow, not as consequential as it seems plus this is not a very competitive ecology right now re:the big ones.
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You could say the same of Microsoft, or Yahoo, or indeed IBM. IBM had the cash to buy Microsoft. Cash isn't power when there are fundamental structural changes happening
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Again - look at IBM's share price story. Talking about Microsoft' market cap just isn't a valid argument. This is not domanance or market power. No-one is afraid of Microsoft. No-one says 'yes, but what if Microsoft did that too?'
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They started making hardware, added accessibility as a priority, bought GitHub, made Linux work on Windows, and open sourced. NET, Terminal, PowerShell. I think at least a few companies are worried about them? There's a lot of competition in VR/AR, but HoloLens is pretty sweet.
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