2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry

Re:2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry by bdfh42 on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @07:20AM (#6990145)

Or to put it another way - 2013, a year that opened up myrriad opportunities for disruption.

Mobile device penetration reached a point where we can rely upon the platform for application distribution.

Wearables continued to look for a compelling app.

Former giants continued to make way for new technologies and companies.

M&A replaced innovation in big companies (great for the rest of us).

Technology leaders continued to be pr$$$s (so whats new?)

Social Media - again achieved platform status - ready to be used, abused and replaced.

Media (and bitcoin) blah blah

NSA and GCHQ screw up the initial cloud business model and (again) open up new opportunities.

Pretty good start point for a great 2014 I would say

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Re:2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry by Paul_S on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @08:59AM (#6990433)

Forgive the flippancy but it looks to me you'd see WW III as an opportunity for entrepreneurial people. Step back and have a look yourself.

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Re:2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry by taybin on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @09:02AM (#6990444)

Wouldn't it be? All those rations to hoard and trade...

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Re:2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry by samelawrence on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @09:02AM (#6990447)

WWII (or any other time of turmoil) was a huge opportunity for some entrepreneurs, and we needed them to restore order and stability after the conflict. Obviously there was some profiteering, but I don't see it as inherently wrong to look at times of trouble as opportunities.

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Re:2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry by kristopolous on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @09:24AM (#6990541)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family#The_Napoleo... is my favorite example of this. brilliant at every move - like some chess grandmaster of business.

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Re:2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry by bowlofpetunias on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @01:56PM (#6992164)

So now we're rewriting post-WWII history to glorify entrepreneurs even further?

If anything, most efforts and programs that resulted in the remarkably fast restoration of countries ruined by the war would today be labelled as examples of "socialist" big government.

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Re:2013: A Bad Year for the Tech Industry by bdfh42 on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @11:12AM (#6991185)

I suppose it is possible that one of the items featured in the post resulted in some personal loss to yourself - commiserations if that was so.

I think that most of us are always on the look out for gaps and opportunities to make some headway in this world. Thus the marginal (on a global scale) misfortunes of some ultra large businesses are likely to be seen as a positive from the perspective of a smaller more agile enterprise.

I know that my 2014 project is all about running rings around the established players in a major market place. I do not apologise for relishing the prospect.

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