So Microsoft just copies any successful small product that shows up? Trying to prevent another competitor the size of Slack/Zoom?
To the people at large companies working on replicating small company products. How do you motivate yourself?
To the people at large companies working on replicating small company products. How do you motivate yourself?
Apart from this playbook feeling unfair and resulting in undeserved success for these companies, I think it is also a danger for innovation. It signals to would-be investors that backing a startup may result in them having thrown away capital just to have a big behemoth brute force their way into that startup's niche later on. It tells founders that they might throw away years of their life for a return that isn't what they would otherwise expect. And it undermines society by continuing massive aggregation and control of the digital world under a few big players.
To me, all of this is a sign that we need renewed antitrust laws to split up Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and other players that have too much control.
And often they kill a small competitor this way and then let the product die slowly so the end it’s a negative.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/embrace-extend-extinguish-how-...
They use the "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish" line that apparently came out of internal MS emails, but as they say, not quite the same in the Google Reader case: no intent to extinguish presumably -- but the same effect.
Agree. No intent but the same result.
Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, or any other company that has the resources to do so. They're all the same in that regard.
I think this phenomena is an artifact of how well they enter a market. Pre-iPhone smartphones were really bad. They all instantly felt 10 years old the day the iPhone released. That's probably the most extreme example, though.
1 Threaten the shared clients (when one of the giants tried to push out mellanox, it specifically sent a message to all enterprise customers to stop using the small competition, or else they'll loss benefits) 2 (Almost ?) Every startup is violating some IBM/broadcomm/Google/etc patents, those are playing cards that can be used to shut them down or buy at a fraction of the value.
Competitiveness doesn't only belong to the small company, sadly. Also, they pay very well.
I'm assuming you weren't around for the 90s?