Decouple. Take advantage of network effects. Model income generation wide and deep.
It’s all about extending social geometry.
I align with Apple a bit more as they actually do interesting manufacturing R&D; they’re all terrible on the software and privacy side.
Google is 3-4 useful websites, cloud software hype, and resource consumption.
We could write desktop software that recurses over personal data, abstracts useful metadata, and share that with each other. Users pay for bandwidth when they could just utilize their computer better.
Somehow we’ve anchored our agency to doing that via cloud providers who externalized their real costs onto startups which is why they’re rich.
I’m really hopeful the future of hardware comes with power savings and performance that make building a business with off the shelf parts tenable again. But who knows
YouTube being the most profitable platform only means that people will consider it as /a/ primary target, but nothing prevents them from using other platforms. As long as the cost is justifiable, multi-platform approach is always better. Luckily, operating on multiple platform is extremely cheap.