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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by cdancette on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:07PM (#16674258)
Microsoft azure is not going so bad, and it started in a space where amazon was far ahead. A large head start doesn't mean that you can't compete, it depends largely on the space.
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Re:Tim Cook says Facebook's collection of user data 'shouldn... by darawk on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:24PM (#16674376)
You're completely right. I didn't mean to imply that you can't compete with a head start. What I meant to imply was that in social/search specifically, it's extremely difficult to compete, due to the virtuous cycles of networks and data.
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