Don't Panic, But We've Passed Peak Apple (and Google, and Facebook) 307
waderoush writes "Over the last decade, just three companies — Google, Apple, and Facebook — have generated most of the new ideas and most of the business momentum in the world of computing. (Add in Amazon, if you're feeling generous.) But it's been a long time since any of these companies introduced anything indisputably new — and there are good reasons to think they never will again. This Xconomy essay argues that the innovation engines at Google, Apple, and Facebook are out of gas (the most surprising thing about OS X Mavericks is that it's not named after a cat) and that other players will have to come up with the underpinnings for the next big cycle of advances in computing. Granted, it's not as if any of these companies will disappear. But the idea that they'll go on generating ideas as groundbreaking as the ones that landed them in the spotlight defies common sense, statistics, and the lessons of history, which show that real innovation almost always comes from small companies. Apple, Google, and Facebook aren't too big to fail — but they may be too big to keep succeeding."
Glass??? (Score:2, Informative)
Google Glass is not completely new? In what way?
Yes there has been VR before and there has been AR before but not like this and not in a format digestable by any consumer.
I seriously think Glass is going to change the way people operate.
Re:Error in summary ? (Score:4, Informative)
Can you see the government bailing them out (as they did wall street and the car makers?
Thats what 'too big to fail means
Re:Glass??? (Score:5, Informative)
"By way of an example, I suggest wearing that device in a public urinal. Bring someone along with you to count the number of seconds before the big guy at the next stall gets the wrong idea and beats the living crap out of you."
First what kind of moron would wear it in the urinal? Normal people stand outside of the urinal and pee into it.... I think your momma did not teach you how to use the bathroom right.
And second, I have several times. Nobody even notices, but then people that have an IQ above 40 knows it has a big bright light on it when the camera is active, and it has to be pointed at what you are recording.... Are you the type that stands there staring at other mens junk? That is probably what will get your ass beat.
But then you don't know anything at all about Google Glass and are just talking out your uneducated butt.
In reality, I have people asking what they are and asking how they work, cant they see through them, etc... 100% of the people that see me with them are curious and really want to know more about it.
Re:Business Map (Score:4, Informative)
The owners stiill have to be willing to sell it, which was the original claim.
Management is irrelevant, just like the current person I have handling renting out a property has exactly no say in whether I sell it or not. Sure they can give me advice, but they aren't the owner and hence they don't have a say.
Now of course in the corporate world board members can also be owners.
Re:Facebook, google invented little (Score:4, Informative)
Not to be pedantic, but the "Ayn Rand mentality" is pretty much the opposite of what you think it is. The tyrants stealing credit (and everything else) are the *villains* and the "little guy (and gal)" entrepreneurs are the *heroes*. The current status quo would be considered a dystopia according to the Ayn Rand mentality.
What may be confusing you is that some of the protagonists were successful industrialists who admittedly aren't "the little guy" at that point in their careers, but they were in the minority compared to those that acted as you say. They didn't rise to the top by stealing from underlings but earned it by actually being the best. Rand's ideal world would be a true and quite unforgiving meritocracy. That last bit is what usually rubs people the wrong way, causing them to reject Rand in knee-jerk fashion without really understanding what she was saying.
Re:Innovation only from Google, FB, Apple ?? (Score:0, Informative)
And the kids that started them had very well-off parents - probably with connections to enter the industry.