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Which business units should be broken up?
by martinsnow 2y ago
Which business units should be broken up?
- SteveNuts 2y agoMicrosoft and Azure, Bing, Office 365 Amazon (the retailer portion) and AWS, and probably their logistics wing
- martinsnow 2y agoNone of those are owned by Google
- RIMR 2y agoAnd? We were talking about other businesses that should be split up in addition to Google. It would be weird if the only answers were Google-owned ventures...
- martinsnow 2y agoNot in the context of my question. You are welcome to start your own comment thread.
- jonny_eh 2y agoThis would kill xbox
- forrestthewoods 2y agoHuh, why? Xbox is a great example of a business unit that should be self-sustainable. Not that it matters.,Microsoft has done a spectacular job of killing Xbox even with its ability to sustain setting money on fire for the past decade. Xbox has been an unmitigated disaster since Xbox One.
- selykg 2y agoXbox has killed Xbox... have you not seen the sad state of affairs there for, I don't know, the past generation or two of consoles?
- jonny_eh 2y agoI don't disagree with your sentiment, other than the fact that it isn't literally dead… yet.
- dharmab 2y agoXbox has been nothing more than a budget, low-spec, walled in gaming PC for about 1.5 console generations. It no longer has exclusive games, and the hardware (console and peripherals) are mediocre. (PlayStation is almost in the same boat, except they have significant sales in regions where PC gaming is much smaller than in the US.)
- alt227 2y agoXbox is now a cross platform brand, and arguably bigger on PC than in the console market.
- boscillator 2y agoI've always thought is should be Azure, Office and XBox, and each should get their own copy of Windows that they could focus on different things while still being largely compatible. Don't know if XBox could survive on it's own.
- forty 2y agoFor AWS we should split the platform and the managed services (no one should have to compete with "the platform". See elasticsearch, redis). This also works for Amazon retail, they should not be allowed to sell on their own marketplace (they have to choose, they are either a marketplace or a seller)
- awongh 2y agoChrome, search/ads, youtube, consumer apps - gmail & docs etc.
- martinsnow 2y agoBreaking up workspace would hinder Google in competing with Office and Zoho
- azemetre 2y agoLet me break out my violin for the trillion dollar transnational corporation.
- martinsnow 2y agoGiven that the likes of workspace and zoho were born out of Microsofts monopoly. I guess you should.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoIf your only reason for not breaking up a megacorp is that you want it it to compete with another megacorp... ¿Por qué no los dos?
- azemetre 2y agoThat's fine with me. Let's do it so we can establish precedent then hopefully legislate this in Congress. Baby steps bro, they will all have their moment in the sun soon enough.