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Re:Google Music now available to everyone in the US by shinratdr on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @09:53PM (#3246202)
Does anyone have a good example of this actually happening? I can think of countless small companies that were shuttered soon after a much larger company horned in on their business.

I can't think of a single example of a company that actually became more popular and relevant when the same thing happened.

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Re:Google Music now available to everyone in the US by Codayus on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @10:16PM (#3246248)
Google and Microsoft have a huuuge list of projects they jumped into, and failed, leaving the competition stronger than before. All sorts of half-baked apps and ideas - from Google Knols to Microsoft Frontpage.

(Yeah, okay, Adobe isn't exactly a small company. But they're a lot smaller than Microsoft, but Dreamworks has consolidated its position, and Microsoft killed off Frontpage...)

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