Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the Doubters to Keep Mum

Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by LrnByTeach on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:38PM (#15678582)

I thought many times about world domination of these companies in each of these 4 areas which started their significant presence from year 2000 onwards .

Search - Google

Shopping - Amazon

Social - Facebook

Mobile - Apple ( Apple mobile journey started only after year 2000)

>The opportunity for creating "new large web companies" has been shut by the entrenched TRIO.

> Now it's Amazon, Google or Facebook.

> That means that FB was probably the last "web" or "app" big IPO.

> Even Yelp is withering.

> Just like it has been impossible to start a new car or airliner manufacturer since the 1920s (except for Tesla), the opportunity for creating new large web companies has been shut by the entrenched trio.

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by Fej on Saturday November 11, 2017 @06:07PM (#15678704)

Apple does not dominate mobile by any stretch of the imagination, with about 15% market share. Google, on the other hand, is creeping up to monopoly status with Android and its roughly 85% market share.

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by askafriend on Saturday November 11, 2017 @08:53PM (#15679256)

15%-20% marketshare in the smartphone category and yet they capture ~90% of the profits.

To me, that's definitely a type of domination.

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