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1. People have muscle memory in their fingers to type g o o g l e . c o m
2. There are no distractions on the home search page.
That's it. If somehow microsoft and google changed domain names and initial look, Microsoft would win.
The Register is now reporting that Yahoo is asking Google for help !
This means that Ballmer knows that noone wants Mahoosoft, but if he drives Google and Yahoo together, there will be mass rejoicing for a whilst, followed by mass confusion within their two companies for months whilst they work out the logistics. Meanwhile, he can unleash phase 2! (whatever that might be)
Liked the RDM-style opening too.
Now, lesser mass, knee down and kiss the feet of the Dear Leader
the circus elephants? the Redmond photocopiers? Wow.
I'm going to go out and buy ANOTHER copy of your book just to show my appreciation.
I don't think that they want the tech, they just want the audience and the content people - which admittedly, will be hard to merge but not impossible.
I agree though - when MS decides to buy a company after trying for 10 years to play in that space - and not even worrying about breaking even - it doesn't bode well.
Like MSFT; to hell with making great products, let's just sell advertising.
"If you shake your ass they notice fast..." G. Michael
Google to the north, and infiltrating through H211 LLC. Yahoo to the south, held in place by the Lockheed Martin bulwark. But let's not pretend - so far, Microsoft has yet to get south of Shoreline Blvd. and Yahoo is their ticket to ride when it comes to getting their hands on Moffett Field.
Brilliant post, as always.
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elephants mating on skateboards... damn my ribs hurt.
PS: RE: Sue Decker: I'd hit it.
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I've been thinking about the YHOO and MSFT merger and if it goes thru, it can be really bad for GOOG. The only reason microsoft wants to acquire yahoo is an attempt to destroy google. By lowering costs to advertisers and giving a bigger chunk of the ad profits to webmasters, the combined entity can hurt Google. Yahoo by itself cannot afford to do this (nor do they want to mess with google this way) with only 2 billion dollars in the bank. But Microsoft is no stranger to these kinds of tactics, and microsoft is more loaded than google.
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If undercutting Google was their strategy, they should do it using their own already existing portal.
I really doubt that many people in Yahooland want to work for Microsoft. Most technical employees, especially, are likely to be heading out the exits, and it would surprise me if Google doesn't have the welcome mat out for them.
I don't think this merger is going to have much negative impact on Google; indeed, it might be good for them.
In the short run, it will virtually halt all development at Yahoo and that's probably going to cause people to switch to the Google's product, which will be updated more and have snazzier features.
In the long term, I know Microsoft is not going to let Google continue using Unix; it's too much of a blow for them. So everything will either be thrown away or rewritten under Windows, something few self-respecting Yahoo engineers will want to do.
If I were Ballmer, I'd think of this US$45 billion as a huge waste of money. What I hate is that it will almost certainly destroy Yahoo, and I shed a tear for an Internet pioneer that deserves better.
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Why do you suppose google is calling msft violating anti-trust laws.
*gasp* - Thank you, FSJ. My brain is suddenly free of marketeer mindfuck drivel.
This is a Greatest Hit.
The most vicious thing in the world is a toothless tiger trying to hold on to its' old territory.
This makes me think it is over for the whole generation: MSFT, APPL, INTC, AMD, DELL join the likes of Novell, Ashton Tate, WordPerfect, Lotus (yes that IBM Lotus). Software is ephemeral; hardware is obsolete in 18 months.
So too, shall ye pass, ye temporary and undefeated market leaders.
It's only a perfect season if you win the Super Bowl.
I pray for the kids in American garages. They are are last hope before India and China make Apple and Microsoft completely irrelevant. Watch how the EePC has taken off around the world for a clue as to what comes next. Quanta and ASUS don’t need masters anymore than the old colonies need the British these days…
It's the year 6221, the universe's computer systems, including interstellar navigation, goes into a frenzy because Mac-dobe-Affee-Microsoft-ahoo! Corporation says 128-bit only counts so many seconds from Jan 1, 1970.
1) newsflash @ playitcool: "jane, you ignorant slut!" as they used to say on SNL 1.0 ... if your grade school math skills are any indicator, then you wont worry about graduating from harvard - you couldnt even get in to harvard!
any future 128bit O/S will not "run out" of time (pace Y2K) because 128bits of seconds is (16 million trillion times) longer than the physical existence of the universe itself!
the year 6221 is only ~100B seconds from now (4K years x 24Msecs/Y), which barely exceeds the capacity of 32bit address space (2^32 vs 2^36) .... in fact 64bits will be entirely adequate for keeping time (at 1000B years) even if this spawn-of-satan super O/S will measure the 'wall clock' in milliseconds (however, for scientific calculations that can't use the 'wall clock', the 80bit double-precision that is already available in this millennium does the job).
2) playitcool's counting problems seem to extend beyond the calendar: basic marketshare data also seems to elude him ...
At current run-rate growth, the mac's (us retail) marketshare for consumers is already heading towards 20% and its business presence is pointing towards 10% over the next couple of years.
I apologize for a nit-picky post - i realize this reality-based approach violates the whole ethos of FSJ's blog! ...
but what are we supposed to do with 'FACTARDS' like playitcool?! ... just let them go on living in their delusional bubble? ... dont we have an obligation to help them from hurting themselves (or worse, innocent by-standers) with sharp pointy things like facts?!
Dude, relax and let the enema do its job.
sheeeeeeeee-zus. it's like no one even remembers fairly recent history, even, anymore. I guess you're right fsj - no one reads anymore. except maybe rv guide, on-line. the more things change, the more the stay the same, an' all that ...
While the Microsoft economy remains huge, and will do so far into the future (as was the case with IBM before it), there can be little doubt that Microsoft is now chasing the tail of the big dog.
Some quickie analysis in 'The Market Maker & The Information Economy: http://thenetworkgarden.com/weblog/2008/02/the-...
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An amazingly accurate analysis.
I'm wondering if the RSJ wrote this one - it's truly *that* good.
I also have to say FSJ use of metaphors and analogies also truly amazing. It is what makes this Blog enjoyable to read. I have this vision looping in my brain of trying to keep two mating elephants on a skateboard. This is how to make the craft of analysis come alive and be read -- dare I say enjoyed.
No one will want the code for Vista (maybe Atari or Commodore), and the next MSFT OS is largely Linux with a pretty face (not unlike OSX which at least uses real UNIX).
What happened to the "smartest people on the planet."
Is it JKG's "Affluent Society" at work - just too rich and too lazy now to do anything meaningful?
Name one MSFT innovation. One?
the answer is:
anything but love
The question what money can buy
The answer is share with love
The question is what can be done for a dollar.
"Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo could undermine the open competition on the Internet! ....
"Microsoft which has been targeted by antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe, frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies -- and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets!"
"Microsoft could now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC!"
I answered quickly: "The combination of Microsoft and Yahoo will create a more competitive marketplace by establishing a compelling number two competitor for Internet search and online advertising. (The #2 I was refering to is Google!)
The alternative scenarios only lead to less competition on the Internet."
THE TRUTH!
The Gutards are a lot smarter than I thought, they finally have realised who they have pissed off here! They haven't seen anything yet! I have already beefed up the legal team budget by 80%! We are going to gut the Gutards, go to court, then in a few years pay a negotiated fine! That's how the law works!
In any case in a few years we will no longer have to worry about Gaggle!
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Why do you suppose google is calling msft violating anti-trust laws.
Why do you suppose google is calling msft violating anti-trust laws.
Every day that MicroWho? get stalled on this is two days gained for big G. The longer it takes for this mess to be revealed for what it is, the happier (and richer) they'll be. (FSJ, great post - almost forgot!)
The louder Google howls about the deal, the harder Microsoft will push to get it done. Not only will the delays hurt two of its biggest rivals, once the deal is consummated, it will further distract said rivals as they puzzle over how they're actually going to make this ill-conceived marriage work.
The fact that Microsoft admits that it will have to go into debt to acquire Yahoo! is that stuns me. The dragon's hoard of cash has always been a sign of strength for them, as well as for Apple. The fact that they're willing to piss it all away on one deal is a sign of desperation, not strength. It makes them look very weak, and it will hurt their balance sheet in both the near- and medium-term.
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Apple is using software to sell overpriced hardware, which is the dumbest strategy since Westmoreland decided to drop leaflets on North Vietnam instead of nukes. Now that the economy is in the dumper, ordinary people are suddenly going to notice the customary mark-up on these effete Apple boxes. You have the best software in the world, and it's trapped inside lovely but so-so hardware that most people can't afford. Even Jerry Yang wouldn't be dumb enough to put a brushed aluminum ceiling on his own market share.
When Apple is as profitable as the Borg -- in absolute numbers and margins -- you let me know. That Mac market share is stuck in single digits even in the face of the Vista catastrophe and Microsoft's perennial medicrity, is due to one thing: Apple's boutique premium-priced, software-selling-hardware business model. The MacBook Airhead is the latest example: that product is poised to take over the entire market...of effete limousine liberals who don't need a real computer. All twelve of them.
The Mac would win at least 60% of the vote, if only Apple would abandon communism.
Also, a gentle reminder. Apple is in the HARDWARE business. The Borg is in the SOFTWARE business.
Nothing against dell-computers, but i'm asking why they had tried sometimes sniffing arround on my device. can be that they are to deep marriaged with the microscrap-company.
Apple sells both software and hardware, and even with Apple's mark-ups, the software business has much higher margins. Compare AAPL's stats to MSFTs. Google makes money just giving its software away, and history has shown that only chumps try to make money selling iron.
Fake Jobs, back me up here. You've said your entire strategy is to sell only to the beautiful people who can afford boutique products, and that you're ascared to compete with Microsoft head-on, because it'd make you feel dirty.
Apple is not in the hardware business. Apple is in the pretty objects business, as the MacBook Err demonstrates. There are gaping holes in the Mac product line, and yet Jobs is busy filling out tiny gaps in the high end. Amazing.
Why should Apple overextend itself? Their record over the last 18 months has been astounding, and all they have to do is wait for the Windows giant to complete its fall.
Dansu,
You are on to something here.
Microsoft has given up on software for advertising and subscriptions. I don't want to subscribe to anything (except Forbes), and I tune out advertising, even for products I might buy. Have you gone to a card dealer or BestBuy lately? You know more than the salesman about the products because of your web research.
Google is good, and we all use it, but as it begins to really favor it's advertisers in stacking results, we begin to look elsewhere.
Advertising is a dying model, and it is getting ugly in its old age.
BMW has horrible ads, but great cars.
It is all about product. Even Apple's advertising has been sub-par, but great products which people want to buy make them look successful.
Magic Johnson extended Kareem's career by a few years, but in the end, time marches on.
"Life is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all of its' students." _Hector
Sun and a company whose name I forget -- oh, yeah, Silicon Graphics -- used to make a tidy profit selling high-priced proprietary hardware to run proprietary software. I wonder how that worked out.
probably this will also be the best solution.
My question would be, is the Mac resale(PowerBooks, iBooks, iMac G3, G4's, G5's) taken into Apple's sales, OS and Hardware user base? Or do sales numbers for user base only reflect new retail/online sales?
I have not purchased "one' new retail Mac, but 7 used resold Macs online. I see very few PC's reselling in strong numbers on eBay.
Those that can not afford a NEW Mac, are buying through eBay, or other resellers-MacPro Systems, LA Computer Co, etc, PowerMax
What are the REAL mac user base numbers,new, used, not online, etc. Using OS 9, 10.0-10.5?
Think about. Somewhere, locked in a vault in (real) Steve Jobs office, is a version of OS X.
It probably is marked "for use on HP PCs only" or maybe "for use on Dell PCs only".
If Apple was to really slow down, they just unlock this vault, deal with a PC vendor, and soon have 20-30% of the consumer OS market with very little additional cost.
The vault probably has a glass cover marked "only to be opened in case of emergency".
:)
Fred
MSFT might like to learn that lesson. Their code base is circling the drain. At least, its heart has skipped a beat, a big fat multibillion-dollar beat. Vista = FAIL. That was not the plan. I should think it was not an option. But people are derating, decrementing, degrading from Vista to XP, even if they have to pay more.
I think it's kind of like that old joke: Rendered below in haiku format:
Yeah, sure, I am fat
But you are ugly (/stupid)
And I can diet.
Uh huh. McGovern was talking to Mark Felt ("Deep Throat") during the '72 campaign and was apparently ready to blow me out of the water. Why didn't he do it? He didn't have the guts. And Jobs is a douchebag who doesn't have the guts to take on the Borg.