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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by timbre on Sunday March 06, 2011 @05:59PM (#2295286)
For Microsoft, X-box comes to mind as something they started after they were already huge, which was, eventually, a success. It took them a while to get it right though. Perhaps it's easier for big companies to do well with new hardware because it's harder for new, little companies to do hardware at all.

(I've never used an X-box; by "get it right" I mean "get popular.")

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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by pyre on Sunday March 06, 2011 @06:09PM (#2295316)
But the X-box wasn't "big" when it was released. Microsoft was sort of the under-dog in the console market.
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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by Qz on Sunday March 06, 2011 @07:52PM (#2295538)
Just as google is the under-dog in the social market.
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Re:This must be Google's Facebook clone. It sure looks like it. by rararational on Sunday March 06, 2011 @09:04PM (#2295688)
Google just needs a halo.

Which probably just means acquiring talent and company once someone else starts to hit it big.

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