Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study

Re:Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study by oblib on Sunday December 04, 2022 @07:46PM (#33859896)

My wife's grandfather, Theodore Houser, was the CEO of Sears in the `50s. He wrote a book called "Big Business and Human Values". The last CEO had nothing close to "Human Values", and Sears didn't last long after they started ignoring his advice.

Elon Musk would do well to read that book.

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Re:Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study by listenallyall on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:02PM (#33860022)

Apples to apples? Mr. Houser didn't have to compete against Amazon, Target, Wal-Mart, specialty retailers (Home Depot, Best Buy), clothing discounters (TJ Maxx, Kohl's), any internet stores, or any suppliers selling Chinese-made goods.

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Re:Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study by oblib on Sunday December 04, 2022 @10:42PM (#33861189)

Sears had pretty much the 1st crack at creating an "Amazon" and blew it. I mean, it's fair to say the "Sears Catalog" was the blueprint for that.

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Re:Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study by listenallyall on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:48PM (#33876041)

Huh? We were talking about the career of Mr. Houser -- not sure exactly when he ran Sears but he died in 1963, I'm pretty sure the technology needed to build "Amazon" didn't exist at that time. Anyway 25 years later Sears (and IBM) at least took a shot at it with Prodigy.

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Re:Web Platforms Collapse: The Facebook Case Study by oblib on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:40PM (#33993231)

I was talking about "Big Business and Human Values".

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