Re:Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet...
by scarface74 on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:13PM
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And how has that worked in the past?
AOL/TimeWarner
General Electric/Universal/Synchrony Bank
AT&T/DirecTV
Google/Motorola
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Re:Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet...
by mantap on Sunday December 08, 2019 @01:58AM
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Those are mergers and acquisitions. I said Apple needs to find new product categories outside of consumer electronics. They were going to make a car at one point but the project imploded.
It's really not healthy for a company to build a whole constellation of products and services around one product only. It creates unnecessary risk because if that product ever sours, everything will fall apart.
Re:Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet...
by scarface74 on Sunday December 08, 2019 @12:16PM
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As of last quarter, only 48% of Apple’s revenue comes from iPhones. For Apple, the Mac and iPad markets are both tiny - at around 10% of their revenue - that revenue by itself would put it in the top 100 companies in the F500.
None of the tech giants are well diversified - with Google being the least diversified. Facebook just buys up competitors.
Amazon has retail and AWS. Microsoft has software and Cloud.
What limits Apple to the electronics market? It's been clear for a long time that they need to grow outside of electronics. Apple's value is in its design and brand. They could be so much more than an electronics company, under different leadership.