Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever
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Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever
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#2Interesting advertizing industry trend based analysis of Google's and Facebook's financials of late and some future projections - quite informative.
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#3I have had a talk with a friend of mine about this. The current system doesn't allow a Company to be around very long if it doesn't show any growth.
This is kind of sad. I think this is where most company will start making shady decisions to improve growth.
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#4Mostly unrelated: I was surprised by how poorly drawn the accompanying android-with-a-cane illustration was. I understand that minimalism is a style unto itself, and intentionally poor drawing (as if in MS Paint) can be used to imply other things...but this just seemed amateurish, as if the NYT couldn't afford a decent illustrator.
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#5Mostly unrelated: I was surprised by how poorly drawn the accompanying android-with-a-cane illustration was. I understand that minimalism is a style unto itself, and intentionally poor drawing (as if in MS Paint) can be used to imply other things...but this just seemed amateurish, as if the NYT couldn't afford a decent illustrator.
Maybe the image was blown up larger than what's in the print version? The illustrator's style seems to look better in the smaller format.
https://www.google.com/search?q=stuart+goldenberg+illustrati...
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#6This article is pretty bad, based entirely on some analyst who says "Google doesn’t create immersive experiences that you get lost in", whatever that means, and some really tenuous comparisons to other companies.
The hilarious thing is that this was only written in February and this analyst's view of Microsoft's impending obsolescence is already trending in a radically opposite direction. Shows exactly why lines like
> Even Microsoft — the once unbeatable, declared monopolist of personal computing software — has struggled to stay relevant in the shift from desktop to mobile devices, even as it has continued to pump out billions in profits.
are so completely worthless as predictors of anything.
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#7I have had a talk with a friend of mine about this. The current system doesn't allow a Company to be around very long if it doesn't show any growth. This is kind of sad. I think this is where most company will start making shady decisions to improve growth.
Is this true though? Most big companies (that have been around for very long) start giving out dividends to their shareholders. This becomes a nice but relatively safe source of income that many people prefer over risky companies - that will either skyrocket or crash-n-burn.
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#8A) 20% growth in revenue per year is not "flattening out". It's massively exponential growth.
B) Google is at the cutting edge of robotics and computer vision. I'd say they are in an excellent position to cash in on the next big market.
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#9Farhad Manjo using Ben Thompson analysis, what could be more impartial?
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#10Mostly unrelated: I was surprised by how poorly drawn the accompanying android-with-a-cane illustration was. I understand that minimalism is a style unto itself, and intentionally poor drawing (as if in MS Paint) can be used to imply other things...but this just seemed amateurish, as if the NYT couldn't afford a decent illustrator.
If you look up the artist you'll note his previous illustrations are mostly crudely drawn comics. I suppose that is the charm.