missserenity

I'm pretty sure Amazon mostly cares about above the fold latency, because that's what most effects how you experience the page.

On my laptop, it's only about 4 seconds before all the above the fold content renders.

I believe that was on very specific pages, mostly the "shopping cart" page that you reach before checking out.

I'm pretty sure Amazon releases features incrementally to a percentage of customers at a time to see how they react.

Is Coca-Cola ever going to move away from brand advertising? Is Bud Light? Is McDonald's?

There are too many products where value comes from building a lifelong relationship with the customer, rather than directing a single purchase. That's stuff only branding can do.

Sometimes the most important thing about a new product isn't the product, it's the go-to market strategy. Google hasn't proven it can conquer that last hurdle.

Here's Steve Jobs talking about the challenges with Apple TV and it's go-to-market strategy: http://youtu.be/-pSfOKMEbG0?t=31s

People use Google more than they use Facebook?

This says people spend an average of 40 minutes per day on Facebook: http://techcrunch.com/2014/07/23/facebook-usage-time/

I can't find quite the same statistic for Google, but this says 22 billion minutes / 47 million vistors / month, which is about 15 minutes. Of which 60-some percent is YouTube. http://mediatel.co.uk/newsline/2014/08/07/22-billion-minutes...

Now thats two different countries, but I suspect the numbers are pretty similar.

? The author specifically mentions companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Plus the point isn't that one company will replace Google, it's that Google isn't positioned to take advantage of the next wave of online advertising - digital brand advertising.

And Google is not 3M. They have not proven to any significant degree that any of their research projects will provide lasting value to the company. In fact, almost all of their successful non-search products were acquisitions, not the result of internal R&D. Android was an acquisition; Maps was an acquisition; Docs was an acquisition.

Did Windows Mobile help Microsoft capitalize on the Mobile revolution? A too early product doesn't always help you capture the value of coming wave.

Each of these companies had huge scandals related to accounting fraud. Are you assuming the same is the case with IBM?

Why are they funding breast implants?