What Is a Tech Company?

Re:What Is a Tech Company? by basch on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:03PM (#20879144)

My argument is that if we use tech to mean what it means (the application of knowledge) that MANY MANY MANY different types of companies fall under one useless blanket. Dow, Dupont, Ford, Goldman Sachs, Chase etc. Instead we should call them what they are, chemical companies and banks. Every bank is now an "internet company."

Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon build databases, programming frameworks, hardware, operating systems. "Tech platform vendor?"

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Re:What Is a Tech Company? by sah2ed on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:20PM (#20879336)

The label can be useless, I agree, which is why I try to limit my use to certain contexts where its use makes sense or can be inferred correctly.

I do think we should limit its use to something of a legal term, as I tried to explain elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20879152

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