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Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:15:54 +0000

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By: Short Hits for Thursday « billpetti

Short Hits for Thursday « billpetti — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:20:57 +0000

[...] tech firms: Jordon Golson lists 5 tech firms that are in firm control of their respective markets, achieving over 50% market share in the areas such as search, CPU, printers, OS, and digital [...]

By: Gabe Lozano

Gabe Lozano — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:25:47 +0000

Exactly. Every company that has a rise is destined to have a fall. The only question is how long they remain on top, not if they remain on top. And sometimes, there are multiple runs by the same company (think Apple).

By: Jordan Golson

Jordan Golson — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:47:24 +0000

I also thought of Heinz ketchup and De Beers!

By: Sterwen

Sterwen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:02:41 +0000

China add labor but no margin and mostly (at least today) low qualified or not specific labor.

A PC made in China is leaving most of the know-how and margins in the US (+Japan/Korea/Taiwan). Think about: CPU is American (see post), so are the other key components and the software (see post again). Other HW is coming from Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

Is is not the molding of the plastic case and the assy of the components that gives an edge to the product. In fact China is buying most of the value of the PC (or any other device) abroad, make razor thin margin on the added value and sell back to the US (or Europe or Japan).

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:29:58 +0000

Do you guys EVER see anything past the computer market?

By: Raindeer

Raindeer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:15:49 +0000

I wonder why the author mentioned Google Search here. Search is not where the money is. The money is in advertising and let’s be very clear, that is where Google dominates. Search is one of the vehicles that brings it to you, but Google dominates the advertising market. That is also why Microsoft’s desperate moves into search make so little sense. There is money in advertising and Microsoft doesn’t have the products for it

By: David Robins

David Robins — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:07:10 +0000

No company stays at top for ever! Eventually the paradigm will shift and new leaders emerge. Remember Kodak, Polaroid (which I used to work ), Xerox , GM and many others?

By: sunil

sunil — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:36:10 +0000

I think if we look deeper, there is a China factor in this, HP, Apple, intel and microsoft to some extent have all outsourced their hardware in China, that is 90% of all manufacturing done for US is in China.

For software almost majority of essential and non decision making work is contributed by India also, maybe around 40% of software work.

The fact is, American consumers are paying 100% more for the top five products than if they would have been in China or India.

The profit goes to the top executives from marketing efforts done in US.

This is no news if we exclude china and India in big five, they are surviving for now, cos of low cost cheap labor in Asia keeping the competition away, don’t know how long this game will last.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:08:36 +0000

How about Cisco?

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