>Innovative new disruptor bursts onto the scene >They have loads of energy and are really down to earth and in touch with what people want >Slowly the men in suits start to take notice >Hold on a minute, these stupid kids playing videogames in their parents basement are actually rolling in the money! This is serious! >Men with suits get involved >You cowboys may have gotten away with these shoddy business practices when you were just dicking around on videogames but we're making some serious money now! This is serious businessTM! >Men in suits completely miss the point and appeal of what made COMPANY / PRODUCT successful in the first place >Boomers run it into the ground, original visionaries start to leave as it has changed beyond recognition and they realise the company culture is lost. Users start to notice subtle changes >As product loses its charm, growth starts to falter, people start to leave, company culture is lost, they double down and just try to extract every penny from a sinking ship and sell out to make money off it before it crashes and burns entirely
Happening to youtube. Happened to facebook years ago. Happening to reddit and twitch as we speak.
But why has it not happened to Google and Microsoft? What differentiates these 2 companies from the rest that they have stood the tests of time, especially Microsoft?
Google just werks Microsoft also just werks despite what Any Forums says
Gabriel Young
>What makes Microsoft & Google so good? >Boomers run it into the ground Microsoft was created by a boomer.
Anthony Peterson
>Happening to youtube >why has it not happened to Google you do know who owns youtube, right >Microsoft it did happen to them, in waves. being the biggest os on the planet with locked-in software has its benefits.
Colton Wright
sorry meant to say happening to amazon* not youtube
Mason Harris
Google isn't engaging in capitalism. They give most of their shit for free - and bypass the usual understanding of putting a value on their own products or providing support.
Ryder Torres
it's not "so" good microsoft made an os that is usable google made a search engine that is usable that speaks volume on how most people are gigantic brainlet that can't do basic things
Matthew Wilson
ironically i was going to say that asking why it hasn't happened to amazon would be a better question.
Luke Garcia
this is cope.
Landon Johnson
In corps that get massive and sprawling, it can become possible for individual teams/areas/departments to get a reasonable degree of autonomy. The leader(s) of these are willing to stick their neck out to fight off the suits trying to reign them in. Smart megacorps will allow these maverick groups because they realize disruptive innovation is how to get ahead, and doing "business as usual" leads to stagnation.
This happened in Microsoft with the OG Xbox. Basically, a small scrappy team in the Direct3D department decided it would be cool to make a console. They hacked together a prototype console in their off hours. Had to steal the XP source code to prevent the Windows team from imposing their own interests in the project. Everyone was skeptical but they managed to convince the right people to give them a shot. Turned out to be a success and made key innovations in consoles that became standards in subsequent gens.
Anthony Hernandez
There's 40 year old software that can still run on Win10. Compare and contrast with freetards being unable to run something from a month ago because they have the wrong revision number of the same minor version of some software that hasn't added new functionality for 40 years. They're just really good at striking the balance of pushing for Shiny New Thing while still offering DEPRECATED_LEGACY_API_FEATURE They probably also give great blowjobs to entireprise clients.
William White
Cope about what. This is just economics 101. Avoiding a price system, liability or fear of obligations to paying customers, or any direct competition with others on these issues is not capitalism. Giant corporations with oodles of money doesn't equal all of capitalism. Capitalism itself is a distinct economic system that Google doesn't play with on most of it's products. They found a loophole with advertising and data collection instead. For knucledragging streets hitters like you, it's a good enough tradeoff.
Leo Hernandez
>They probably also give great blowjobs to entireprise clients. Ironic. How does M$'s dick taste? Could you shill any harder?
Julian Clark
they are too big to fail now
Gavin Thomas
open sores is for hobby projects and boilerplate code Any Forumstard NEETs will defend this
It’s happened to Microsoft like 4 times at least There’s also company’s that it never happened to, see oracle, SAP, etc. all the businesses started by suits continue
