Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social networking era

Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by blackoil on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:17AM (#32247716)

And some are old enough to have read millions of predictions of death of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google and FB.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by FullyFunctional on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:46AM (#32247901)

and Sun, Netscape, etc. Just because some of these predictions didn't happen doesn't mean a lot of them did.

Sun Microsystems appeared solid. Apple _did_ almost die. IBM is only a shadow of their former self (IMO, the original IBM _did_ die). FB and Google are still young in comparison.

I have no stake in either, but IMO Google is more likely to survive than FB. FWIW, both have high quality staff that will bail if the growth stalls.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by GekkePrutser on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:54AM (#32248274)

The old IBM really just sold itself off in little pieces.

What's left is a few pieces that have no idea what they want to be but they just keep doing what they do because the brand name assures them customers.

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Re:Facebook's TikTok-like redesign marks sunset of social ne... by pjmlp on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @04:39AM (#32248184)

Some of which we were actually right about.

By the way, Apple only survived thanks to Microsoft money and being reverse acquired by NeXT.

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