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Re:Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet... by scarface74 on Saturday December 07, 2019 @10:13PM (#21734142)
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 (#21734695)
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 (#21736906)
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.