Battle line has been drawn: YahooSoft goes for more Search shares, Google gets into the O/S market.
This reminds me of cable companies getting into telephony (digital voice) and internet, forcing the hands of ATT and Verizon to come out with Triple Play at considerable build-out costs.
What we as consumers need is to have multi-screen or better off, multi OS (we will end up looking like Network TV control room) with various Search capacities, good for advertisers, good for viewers (multi-screen on cable TV is now possible).
The age of the media oligarchs. From the pipe to the content, from broadband and WiMax to Facebook and Twitter.
While everybody is distracted by the Recession, major consolidations are in the works, on the cheap too.
It is said that when the financial market is stabilized, when the dust is settled, we will see a different business landscape emerge.
Companies will have to be leaner, greener and more Web 3.0/G4 savvy to thrive.
Things like infrastructure sharing (for telecom outfits) – a next logical step up from co-location, did not exist before the Recession (just like the BPO and offshoring trends which followed the Y2K expediency).
On the hardware side, we mourned the loss of Nortel, congratulated Virgin on its being acquired by Sprint, and felt sorry for the glitch which costs PRE a lot of money (for listing it at mere $99.00).
I can’t even remember a screen without Yahoo. And a computer without Window OS even when I don’t use it.
Someday, we will have to move on, and do away with “childish” things. Evolution. Developmental and collateral damage. It’s much easy to ship a Netbook and flat screen than the old bulky system soon to be relics of the past.
Bing(o)! Yahoo! Tech rules, as always. Except that in tech, there is a dilemma: the innovator’s dilemma. Creative destruction. And the millennial generation will make sure to shake the proverbial African tree so hard, just to see
who “over 30” are still hanging on, thus are allowed to live on. Survival of the fittest. And lightning speed.
(one of my summer accomplishments was to meet and be connected with one young guy from Google).
Looking on the ground, I saw Motorola and Nortel. Up in the branch, remain YaSoft and GoApple. And on top
of the OSI model, I see tiny Twitter and Facebook, screaming for more friends to come and join them. It’s lonely at the top.
Thang Nguyen 555 