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Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth by brianstorms on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:45PM (#12176745)
It will happen. Facebook is not forever. Nor is Google. Nor is Apple.
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Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth by erikpukinskis on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:49PM (#12176775)
See IBM and Microsoft whose market caps both collapsed after they lost control of their respective markets.

Oh, wait...

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Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth by ChrisLTD on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:57PM (#12176815)
To be fair, IBM and Microsoft are very different companies now. Maybe Facebook becomes the VR company and not the social media company?
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Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth by raverbashing on Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:12AM (#12179383)
You can see how IBM is putting a lot of money into (ads for) their "cognitive computing" stuff (probably crappier and more expensive than the competition)

They're pretty much drifting into irrelevance each passing day. But enough to fool some people into giving them money

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Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth by acchow on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @06:53PM (#12177082)
MSFT had >$600 billion market cap in 1999.
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Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth by scholia on Thursday July 28, 2016 @12:08PM (#12181097)
There was a bubble....
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Re:Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth by refurb on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @09:50PM (#12177823)
"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
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