Big shake up at Twitter continues

Re:Big shake up at Twitter continues by bengl3rt on Saturday August 20, 2011 @12:41PM (#2906998)

Any time someone says "company x hates company y", I stop reading, because it's always more nuanced than that. Any sufficiently large company competes with others on some fronts and collaborates with them on others. Apple uses Google Maps and Samsung chips. Google employees have MacBooks (and yes, they are even allowed to carry iPhones if they prefer).

At the end of the day it's about who can make the most money, and which set of alliances will get them there. No more, no less.

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Re:Big shake up at Twitter continues by kubrickslair on Saturday August 20, 2011 @12:48PM (#2907012)

If I dare say the blind 'this tribe hates that tribe' seems like a very modern concept. It was always subtle alliances, people fighting and cooperating together, bar some very monotheistic warfare like the crusades, and even they were not so black and white.

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Re:Big shake up at Twitter continues by jey on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:13PM (#2907079)

> If I dare say the blind 'this tribe hates that tribe' seems like a very modern concept.

No, that must be one of the oldest tools of demagoguery ever. It was probably useful in the prehistoric "environment of evolutionary adaptedness" out on the plains of Africa.

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Re:Big shake up at Twitter continues by bengl3rt on Saturday August 20, 2011 @01:06PM (#2907066)

Yep. Maybe small companies are this way but within something the size of Apple or Google there are always different groups with different plans and priorities.

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