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Google and Facebook have failed to do this, so why is that?

• g947o 7mo ago
  Failed to do what? I'm sure you can find good analysis of why specific products failed. And both Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta have a bunch of side projects that are reasonably successful.
  • codeulike 7mo ago
    They have failed to diversify, is what I meant, despite being around for approx 2 decades
    • codeulike 7mo ago
      Lets look at diversification of revenue: meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertising google $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% other apple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app store etc), 9% other amazon $638b revenue in 2024: 64% amazon store+associated services, 17% AWS, 9% ads, 11% other microsoft $245b revenue in 2024: 40% azure/server products, 22% office, 10% windows, 9% gaming, 7% linkedin, 5% search+ads, 8% other I'm not particularly a microsoft fan, just making this point because I think MS is poorly understood by the HN crowd