I liked this article about the rivalries between Facebook-Apple-Google-Amazon in the "post-PC world", since these giants are invading each other's traditional territories to capture more customers and revenue. All 4 firms seem to really be leaning on their IT and data mining resources in order to personalize their offerings, understand/predict preferences, and reach more consumers. They are using data to increase usage/consumption, which leads to more customer data being generated, which leads to more insight on how to boost future consumption, and on it goes.
But I think TV is the final frontier that these firms still haven't been able to crack. It's such a big market with entrenched players, different rules, and so many viewers/dollars at stake. We'll see which of them (if any) can best integrate their products with the new web-enabled TV future that they claim is supposed to come soon. And there will also be competition and interference from banks, cable, and telcos, whose infrastructure enables all this online activity and consumption, and who are probably tired of seeing the riches and glory go to Silicon Valley. It will also be interesting to see what disruptive upstarts can put these former startups on the defensive.
I didn't realize that Google bought Android, and didn't develop it in-house. What posers! :)
Who knew that bankers, statisticians, and programmers would eventually rule the world? If you told that to Rockefeller and Carnegie back in the day, they would have choked on their Cuban cigars. And the day is not far off when the Si Valley giants are going to get into defense (probably software, but possibly hardware too!).
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