Most popular websites over time

[jon-nyc]

@89th and @Jolly

Many of us remember the same argument about IBM (once it destroyed Burroughs, Unisys, DEC, etc) and the same argument about Microsoft (once it hobbled IBM).

It’s usually a new technology paradigm that dislodges the king, not a competitor in the traditional space.

[Doctor Phibes]

I'm still sitting on my East India Company shares. They're seriously undervalued....

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Most popular websites over time:

I'm still sitting on my East India Company shares. They're seriously undervalued....

Doubt it.

The originals are worth in excess of $1,000,000. Even a first class reproduction goes for over $1000. Find those at:

https://www.bullmarketgifts.com

[jon-nyc]

For real I entered my career when IBM was being hobbled by MSFT.

I was very much of the opinion that MSFT was going to rule the tech world for half a century.

Even when I saw other startups innovate, MSFT would use their market power to make their own “me too” option win.

That’s how they killed WordPerfect, Presentation, and Lotus 1-2-3

Then the web came.

And they were dethroned, even while Europe was prosecuting them for antitrust. That case became a farce before it finished.

Only then did i internalize that it’s a pattern. I can’t predict what comes next and dethrones the current paradigm, but it will happen.

[Copper]

When I worked at GM, we were on the Fortune 1 list forever.

Not any more.

https://fortune.com/company/general-motors/fortune500/

2010

It’s the case of former number one automaker in the world, General Motors, who is out of the Fortune 500’s top ten for the first time in its 101-year-old history.

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in Most popular websites over time:

Only then did i internalize that it’s a pattern. I can’t predict what comes next and dethrones the current paradigm, but it will happen.

I see Facebook imploding eventually. It’s a social network that has lost its youth audience so the demographics actively using it will literally die off.

But Google and YouTube…hard to imagine what could replace those but I guess it’ll happen eventually. Maybe only when folks stop using the browser for mobile device alternatives.

[Copper]

There is plenty of incentive to replace the big tech companies.

Someone will figure it out.

[LuFins Dad]

@89th said in Most popular websites over time:

@jon-nyc said in Most popular websites over time:

Only then did i internalize that it’s a pattern. I can’t predict what comes next and dethrones the current paradigm, but it will happen.

I see Facebook imploding eventually. It’s a social network that has lost its youth audience so the demographics actively using it will literally die off.

But Google and YouTube…hard to imagine what could replace those but I guess it’ll happen eventually. Maybe only when folks stop using the browser for mobile device alternatives.

YouTube is already a drastically different platform. TikTok has been eating it’s lunch in some ways.

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in Most popular websites over time:

@89th said in Most popular websites over time:

@jon-nyc said in Most popular websites over time:

Only then did i internalize that it’s a pattern. I can’t predict what comes next and dethrones the current paradigm, but it will happen.

I see Facebook imploding eventually. It’s a social network that has lost its youth audience so the demographics actively using it will literally die off.

But Google and YouTube…hard to imagine what could replace those but I guess it’ll happen eventually. Maybe only when folks stop using the browser for mobile device alternatives.

YouTube is already a drastically different platform. TikTok has been eating it’s lunch in some ways.

It can't, not entirely. They aren't direct competitors.

[Klaus]

What about apps? Some services are almost only used through apps, such as Zoom or Slack.