I’ve speculated on the disruptive potential of Google before, and really since then not a lot has changed I guess. Still, as I look at the last few announcements from Google there does seem to be a pattern. I get asked a lot by the financial community about
I’ve speculated on the disruptive potential of Google before, and really since then not a lot has changed I guess. Still, as I look at the last few announcements from Google there does seem to be a pattern. I get asked a lot by the financial community about
Google has a unique position, the ad business on which it lives is fairly stable it would seem and honestly, can another search engine displace them now? Not really likely, just like saying Chrome OS is going to replace Windows 7 on the netbook anytime soon. Just because a technology might be better doesn’t often make it the market leader, marketing does…along with inertia. More people are familiar with Windows, there is more device support, etc. All these things make it unlikely that Windows can be displaced…I mean, I’m typing this on a MacBook Pro sitting in a Starbucks in San Francisco (arguably a stronghold of Apple devotees) and as I look around, out of a dozen notebooks/netbooks here we don’t represent 20% (1 other MacBook pro, 10 windows, 0 Linux). Not an official poll but a common sight. You have to wonder though, since
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