Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted

Re:Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted by djsumdog on Thursday February 08, 2018 @06:26PM (#16336502)

Microsoft is still huge though. Sure they've lost server share to Linux (which they're embracing in some ways now) and desktop share to Apple, but they're still massive.

The trouble is, how do you compete with Google, now, today. We use to have Lycos, Hotbot, Yahoo, Dogpile ... Duckduckgo is far from even approaching Google's share.

I don't think the future is the free market. The future is developers making distributed platforms that everyone can support. The next YouTube won't be centralized. The next search won't have removable results, because they'll be cached among all the computers that contribute to that search.

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Re:Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted by rock_hard on Thursday February 08, 2018 @06:57PM (#16336672)

I am not sure that’s gonna work as we all want it to.

If there is no central governing body (like FB or Google) then these decentralized networks will be pure anarchy...in which case it won’t take long for government to jump in and mess everything up with a bunch of nonsensical regulations...just look what happened with BitTorrent and now Crypto currencies.

You seriously think the government is gonna do a better job at regulating Google or Facebook then these companies themselves? The incentives are simply not aligned...it’s all gonna go to hell my friend :(

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Re:Why Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Need to Be Disrupted by malvosenior on Thursday February 08, 2018 @06:52PM (#16336645)

MS is huge but they don't have the dampening effect on innovation they did in the 90s.

I fully agree with your prediction that the future is decentralized and probably non-commercial though.

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