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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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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I'm guessing that if IBM had tried to buy Microsoft back-when, it might have actually been blocked. Meanwhile, Facebook shows cash can be real power when fundamental structural changes are happening—Instagram & WhatsApp. (Again, Microsoft hasn't faded. There are just more lanes).
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