Comments on: Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook?

By: Politica Italiana

Politica Italiana — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:10:07 +0000

Reading Mathew Ingram: Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? http://t.co/lKy9JIKR

By: How Big Should We Let Google Get? Wrong Question: Tech News «

How Big Should We Let Google Get? Wrong Question: Tech News « — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:46:31 +0000

[...] fast, the others die away and new competitors rarely emerge.” So how then do we explain that Facebook arose out of nowhere and completely displaced massive existing networks like MySpace and Friendster? And while Google may be dominant in search and search-related [...]

By: bishopdante

bishopdante — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:36:39 +0000

to be honest with you, TCP/IP is a monopoly.

And you can thank DARPA for that one.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:48:45 +0000

I had a long-winded response to this article, but I see that several people have blown holes in it sufficiently. So I’ll just add that “Popularity” does note equal “Monopoly.”

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:12:23 +0000

There’s an easy way to avoid an Apple monopoly of music with iTunes. Don’t use iTunes!

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:10:19 +0000

I don’t understand how “Since Google ads sit on the vast majority of web pages, Google gets advance warning on new content as it is created.” Can anyone please explain to me how this would work? It seems like you just made this statement up Les. On top of that, last time I checked, nobody was forced to advertise with Google.

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:06:40 +0000

I don’t understand how “Google’s servers are alerted any time new content is created & viewed for the first time.”

This statement makes no sense to me!!!

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:53:39 +0000

Love this comment!

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:25:25 +0000

I think it is a complicated issues, in regards to the Itunes Store functionality. In the end, I always seem to come back to simply not supporting them, instead getting a product that lets me fully customize and add apps as I please. I think the bigger risk, would be the universal adoption of this system. It seems like Microsoft is sort of working towards a competitor to the app-store/package management store…

By: les madras

les madras — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:03:34 +0000

Google’s search is better than the rest because it has a monopoly in online advertising. Since google ads sit on the vast majority of web pages, google gets advance warning on new content as it is created. therefore google indexes new content much before the competition.

this connection between online advertising and search is key to dominance in the ad and search business.