Which of the big 4 is going to die first? Explain why. >Facebook
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Which of the big 4 is going to die first? Explain why.
>Amazon
>Apple
My choice is Facebook:
>considered boring, not that often heard of in the media anymore
>lots of competing social networks, most of them better adapted for mobile platforms
>pretty specialized, even with investments in VR
>behind Google in data selling game
Keeping it afloat:
>deals with telecoms, similar to how Microsoft makes deals with hardware manufacturers
google or facebook
Its gonna stay afloat, considering that Cuckerberg is one of the CIA niggers.
>>54116219
Aren't all of them just CIA NSA ?
Inb4 thread disappears
fuckbook
>>54116189
i like this idea for a post, but i don't see any of those four going down in the foreseeable future. same as microsoft, btw, even though they're still way to comfy considering the shit they've pulled over the years.
in general, all of these companies have so much money laying around and so many people working on shit while they're steady cost is comparably low (as in, opposed to that of the automotive industry for example, who not only have a serious stream of real goods to pay for and stock but also have serious unions behind their workforce, which software still doesn't have) that they would have to really, REALLY fuck it up on something seriously big. and, i mean, if airbus can survive the a380, i'm willing to guess the thing bringing down any of these companies hasn't been invented yet.
if i had to choose one to go down, i would personally prefer for my own sake it to be facebook, but i would choose based on which of them dodges the most taxes and treats their staff the worst, which - although i have no data to back it up out of hand - i would guess would be amazon.
Apple. Hardware is most probe to death.
>services
>services
>services
>products
I guess apple, but I don't see it being any time soon. hell, they might try and transition into services. They've definitely got the time.
>>54116189
(1/??)
Facebook, and here's why:
In the Search Engine industry (assuming that we're talking about Google's core competency) there really is only two or three big players: Yahoo, Google and Bing. We all know Bing and Yahoo are shit, leaving us with Google.
If we consider that Google has what is essentially a monopoly there's very limited ways it can actually perish. They've got no decent competition so they can charge whatever they want.
>Apple
Their differentiation strategy compared to all other phone and PC manufacturers is working too well. Very little has managed to replicate the brand image and usability to the normies; in fact I reckon Xiaomi is the only one that's taken a fair stab at it.
Their biggest threat is their pricing; there are plenty of customers looking for cheaper options (most of the time is because they're normies and can't into not cracking a screen), so they tend to move to Android phones.
In the home PC market they're doing better than ever and they should be doing better and better given the dogs' breakfast that Windows 10 is.
The one underutilized market for Apple is the business/enterprise PC market. They've sucked Microsofts' cock to get Office on OSX, now they just need to make a reliable compatibility layer for legacy or other Windows only enterprise apps.
cont...
>>54116189
>considered boring, not that often heard of in the media anymore
Since you are on 4chan its safe to assume you are a beta with no friends hence find it boring.No this is not happening for vast majority.Just check Alexa ranks.Facebook is second.Literally majority who use internet is just
>Open Browser
>Type Facebook in searchbar(Almost always Google)
>Open first link
The reason why no one talks maybe because it has become such an integral part of life for many people.Asking your facebook name is like asking your email these days.You are expected to have one.My classmates could'nt literally believe I don't have facebook
>lots of competing social networks, most of them better adapted for mobile platforms
Which facebook is buying up.Almost all stores has Facebook and softwares of it as the no 1 app
>pretty specialized, even with investments in VR
VR is just going to be sham for sometime but I don't know why this is a bad thing
>behind Google in data selling game
Maybe because Google has expanded its market to phones and shit.Facebook is also trying to expand too nowadays.Why do you think it invested in VR.
>>54116219
It's funny how these companies and government use the same methods and data sources to spy on people and they basically fight over who is making this possible for whom.
Facebook provides the data gathering platform, while governments use their data when they need it. Facebook uses the data legally 24/7.
As >>54116253 said, all of the top 4 are in data business and all of them are in bed with the government. They kinda have to be, to make their data business work.
>>54116294
It doesn't mean a company will disappear completely. It's just that maybe "top 3" will be more appropriate way to describe a future situation. Maybe one gets myspaced and replaced, or maybe it starts to blend in with its competition more and more.
As for Microsoft, it's kinda making desperate moves lately and I don't know if it can stay powerful much longer. It's kinda trying to compete all over the place and it often fails. I'm surprised they hadn't specialized in gaming consoles, perhaps expanding their functionality or something.
>>54116391
top 3 search providers are Google,Bing and Baidu.Yahoo lost shit years ago
>Baidu in PRC
Yes and I don't see Google going to dominate even if they opened their internets.Chinese internet companies has gotten so good as of now
>>54116391
>In the home PC market they're doing better than ever and they should be doing better and better given the dogs' breakfast that Windows 10 is.
There is no technical or performance power with w10, it's superior compared to mac os, except botnet.
>>54116189
Definitely Apple. Their "magic" is rapidly eroding thanks to the death of Jobs.
The product lines are getting out of hand, replicating the 90s with so many different models.
They have to rely on Hardware sales for almost all of their money, their services such as iCloud and Apple Music are hopelessly shitty and there's no enterprise to speak of.
>>54116189
Facebook will die first of those.
Google is a gigantic corporation that spams very many branches and markets. Unless you meant Google specifically and not Alphabet, but even then it's still a gigantic enterprise.
Amazon and Apple both have huge physical presences, they're still harder to get rid of.
Facebook is literally just a single website providing a single service. It will die the way most other social networks end up dying after a few years.
>>54116218
Could you elaborate?
Facebook and MS
MS because they've been firing everyone and restructuring the whole ecosystem and basically giving away their software and tools for free. Plus they've been spending like crazy to acquire technology with substantial userbases and fucking up the software in the process. Nobody wants their shit anymore besides gaymuurs and legacy support.
Facebook is only growing in 3rd world shitholes and have been also buying up userbases. Many people are inactive and just have a profile just cause. Most people get fine with just texting each other. They're trying to make fagbook into some sort of collaborative work network, but no company in their right mind would want to implement that shit. There are intranets set up in any self respecting university and businesses. Instagram is fail with nothing but fake accounts and messenger sucks balls because as mentioned, many people are inactive or are fake and gay.
Google will do allright mostly because they've infected the whole web with their botnet via chrome and android.
Apple will do allright iPhones are still good even though iOS is buggy as fuck and I see people with their iPhone screens cracked all the time. They might drop off their macbook and mac mini line in the future though. iMacs and macbook pros are still great deals just for the screens alone.
>>54116189
(2/2)
>Amazon
They're doing fine in the US market, but they have fuck-all exposure here in Australia. And therein lies the problem...
...China, and more specifically Alibaba/Express. Amazon might be able to have next-day shipping and so on and so forth, but market research had shown time and time again that consumers prefer heavily discounted products over store experiences. The lack of exposure that the rest of the world has to Amazon compounds the problem.
Aliexpress will topple Amazon if they don't get their shit together; you can get your cheap chink shit direct from China, cutting out Amazon all together, and the rest of the world has unabated access to it as well.
Amazon, look worried.
Social media is, in my opinion, in its' maturity for this cycle now. The dominant players have been established (Facebook and Twitter) and its' becoming difficult to try and squeeze into the market - Google+ has failed to really shoot off - so it leaves the other parties to battle it out.
Google will shut down Google+, and then Twitter and Facebook will generally fight for dominance.
In my opinion, another social media site will come out and become a phenomenon. Facebook may either buy them out, and get people interested in Facebook again, or they may not see it as a threat until its' too late. Then we have a repeat of MySpace vs Facebook.
The end, Facefuck is the most vulnerable.
>>54116189
Google and Amazon aren't going away anytime soon. As big as they are, they're likely still in their uphill climb before plateauing or descending.
Apple and Facebook have both peaked. Now they might plateau for a long time but its either hanging-on or decline for them, there is no more upward mobility left. I'd say Facebook. Too many eggs in one basket and their diversification projects don't look like they're going anywhere.
(Facebook is paying to be the head of the pack on VR but that isn't a good place to be, someone will come along and build on their work for free, eat their lunch. Probably Google.)
>>54116410
i don't have a facebook as well.
>>54116519
OP here. Exactly my thoughts on Facebook and Amazon and why Amazon could be next after Facebook.
>>54116189
I think amazon, their only ability to exist is because of tax evasion and are barely making profits as is.
Social media takes a long time to die, and zuckerberg has invested in a lot of other things.
Google is google and apple can operate for decades with just their capital
>>54116583
Amazon could have huge profits, but they choose to invest all their earnings into the company. I think Amazon reported a net loss for almost every year.
>>54116447
Christ I didn't even think of Baidu. Probably because its' so much of a clusterfuck to use for a non-Chinese speaker so I've generally avoided it.
>>54116461
It's got nothing to do with how good Win10 actually is, and has all to do with the customers experience.
>Want to upgrade? No problems! Click here!
>Gets stuck on upgrade, normie has to take computer to shop
>Want an upgrade? Too bad, we've downloaded it for you! Click here PLEASE
>Close pop-up
>Windows 10 will automatically install on 21/04/2016. Press no to cancel.
>User doesn't click no, gets stuck on upgrade
>Gets computer back from shop
>Windows XP era apps don't work
>Full screen popups "YOU NEED UPDATES"
Jesus it's like they didn't learn with Vista.
Here's a real-life use case for you:
>Work in an accountants office.
>All the computers use Windows 7; we require Windows for our tax software.
>As I'm a /g/entooman I tried to get it running on WINE; no dice (external VPN plugin needs to load, WINE won't support it)
>Decide to install Windows 10
>Cisco VPN client is deprecated, not supported under Win10
>Have to perform a whole lot of registry hacks to get it to work
>Even then, have to manually adjust some options in the program so it'll run
>All works fine
BUT THEN
>Windows 10 preloads start happening on all of the Windows 7 computers
>Increasingly aggressive prompts appear saying that they'll be upgraded to Windows 10
>Have to stress to everybody in the office not to click it as I couldn't be bothered setting up the proprietary Cisco VPN required for our sofrware to work
I'm qualified in Information Systems and have mucked around with computers for most of my adult life. Imagine if normies had to go through this shit in an enterprise environment.
Microsoft are kill, and they know it.
>>54116583
But Amazon has suffered losses the first 5 years or so intentionally. That's why they are growing so much every year.
They are investing in ordering, shipping, warehouses, and especially hardware (don't forget amazon cloud services, which is leading infrastructure as service (or whatever it's called nowadays) business).
>>54116189
I'm no expert, but I'd say facebook
they're already past the point when all cool factor it might have once have for kids is long gone and before long there will be more accounts of dead people on there than there are actual users (as far as I know they don't really prune anything ever if it isn't against any of their policies) so at some point it's going to implode and/or just something better will come along - some combination of those two ended each and every social network before, I don't see why would kikebook be the one social site to end all social sites
apple might just continue indefinitely, because they have small but dedicated cult of retards that would sustain even if it meant selling their kidneys to buy their new shit. If apple's growing right now it's only because the amount of stupid people is increasing.
Amazon has a very secure position on the worldwide market imo, they could quit trying to break into the hardware game altogether and downsize to their core services and don't loose nothing
as for google I'd say I wish they were on their way out but right now it's like symptomatic cancer - it spread into all tissues and even if you rid yourself from it in one place you'd run into it elsewhere rather sooner than later. They provide so many services that are tied together that for an average consumer there is no real way to use alternatives unless they offer a superior suite of stuff that's at least as commonly used.
So yeah, we're stuck with googleshit until something revolutionary comes along.
also NSA/CIA ties
>>54116622
Yes, but that makes incredibly fragile, no?
>>54116189
If you wish to imply any of these companies are going away any time in your lifetime, facebook included, you'd be mistaken. For now, I think all of these companies will stay alive and continue to invest into valuable markets, Facebook continues to be a major big data and advertising contributor. heck, Digg is still alive and no one touches that garbage anymore, as with MySpace.
>>54116612
Yea probably you're right, a normal person would just want comfort if it werks.
And if you have a computer at work you shouldn't really care, if it's shit you should tell your employer and they should buy something better - a mac if it works, or hire a better IT guy to fix everything before workers come.
In a way I really hope Microsoft is kill, they went too far.
>>54116642
Perhaps, I don't know. They could easily split as Google did when they became Alphabet and provide services separately.
Owning all that infrastructure is pretty cash because everybody depends on them.
>>54116189
I love how Apple is arbitrarily tossed into this list. Sour grapes much?
>>54116189
I'd agree with Facebook.
I suppose it would be at least 5 years before any of them could be called dead. They're too big to fail (quickly).
Why couldnt the myspace revival not have been fucking shit? I'm not even exaggerating when I say it is the worst looking website Ive ever seen.
We need a facebook/old myspace hybrid that makes social media customizable and fun again.
>>54116708
It's not an arbitrary list. It's the Internet's big 4 companies. Feel free to add Microsoft to it, with their new data gathering business, but we kinda all agree they are the ones to go first in that case.
Also, I don't want this to turn into another flame war/shill thread.
>>54116189
I don't see Google or Amazon falling anytime soon. Facebook might be the first one, Apple can do anything and its sheep will eat it.
>>54116666
Satan has spoke
But nah fagbook is shaking in fear of alternative mobile apps. Around here people use snapchat and other privacy focused services most of the time.
>>54116787
I agree with this article
>https://motherboard.vice.com/read/dead-myspace-content-farms-time-inc
that suggests that Time bought Myspace basically for Myspace users' info.
And I fear the future of social media will be fast communication via pre-made but slightly customizable content. The days of customization are over. Convenience and ease of use has won.
I would think that facebook Will bé thé first down cause people find it pretty boring and migrate to twitter specifically. Then I think about apple because they sell overpriced products so people might start to notice it and buy Android / PC
Facebook owns Instagram and Whatsapp.
>>54116189
I'd say facebook because it's social trending bollocks. That shit is always going to be temporary like tastes in music amongst teenagers throughout the decades.
Facebook without question.
>>54116519
Nah Amazon is doing just fine. Their revenue stream isn't as dependent on advertising, they own most of their supply chain which is a big deal. They also have AWS which has a huge market share of PaaS cloud computing, and raking in tons of cash.
Thoughts on the dying companies like IBM and twitter? I can't see Twitter remaining independent by 2020, and IBM will croak when the next big recession hits.
>>54116189
Apple is dying.
No apparent new features on new products.
Slow sales.
Facebook own instagram and whastapp and i don't see any of it dying (yet)
Amazon have trading site and server services. I don't see any chance of AWS S3, EC dying.
Google is still a giant.
Facebook is another mySpace waiting to happen.
>>54116519
Amazon doesn't just have the US, it has yurop too
Facebook isn't going away soon, but it'll be the first to go.
Most people use phones for social stuff now, and facebook is shit there.
Something like wuphf will come along and connect whatsapp and whatever else there is.
amazon is on the way up atm, but maybe it's new experiments will fail, and maybe china will outdo them
Apple is stagnating, and getting retarded. I wouldn't be surprised if it people get sick of them
google will outlive capitalism.
>>54117136
This.
People now use 4chinzz. It's more dank
>>54117232
I hate /g/ so much. Why even visit it? There's almost no thread that's worth it, yet I keep coming back. Fuck me. Fuck /g/.
Apple
Microsoft
Amazon
In that order.
Apple because they may not be able to rely on brand loyalty and differentiating themselves for much longer. They already make inferior phones to samsung, now it's a matter of android improving their shitty mobile OS which is a matter of time.
Microsoft lost big on the mobile market, and their losing ground on creating development/enterprise tools, which is why theres such a sudden shift to open source and getting their products on other platforms. Still this effort might be in vain, as there's a lot of momentum for other tools/services that fill these roles.
Facebook - They're the king no doubt in the social media sphere, and I think Zuckerberg is a good CEO who knows how to lead his company. Still, it only takes something new to change this dynamic They could very well lose out on the VR war.
Google. They make money on ad revenue, but there are ad blockers. With a concentrated effort from other big companies on blocking ads by default this will eat into their bottom line causing them to have to restructure their company and spend less effort on "moonshot" products and instead focus on tried and true methods of generating revenue.
Amazon - Jeff Bezos is probably the best CEO out there. He's made several huge bets that have ended up panning out to be billion dollar industries including Amazon itself, AWS, some other shit im forgetting. The face that they invest all of their revenue into their company and the fact that they have a visionary at the helm and they jew every nickle and dime speaks to me that its not a company thats gonna go down without a fight. I think they'll invest heavily in IoT and become the undisputed champion of it in the future.
Thats just my opinion though, could be wrong.
Apple's main source of revenue is physical devices, but how much money is there in hardware? IBM had to sell off thinkpads because of company incompetence, but also due to tough competitors lowering profit margins. Apple goes for more of a luxury angle, but how long can that brand appeal last?
Where else does Apple make money? The AppStore and iTunes?
I started working as an engineer at Intel about 6 months ago. Today i got a call from Google, they want to interview me.
Would you do it? There's a hugh chance that my boss will find out, and that i wont pass the interviews anyway. Also my job at Intel is pretty comfy, but not very interesting and doesn't pay nearly as much as Google.
>>54117312
Go and hang out with moot.
>>54117312
Go for it anon, just don't be retarded and break any contract you may have with Intel, and don't interview with Google on Intel time. Try and schedule the interview to be outside of normal work hours. You're being poached, so Google recruiting should be ready for a weird interview time.
>>54116410
put spaces after your full stops retard
>>54117437
Thefuck is a full stop?
Apple because If they fail in the hardware department they have no other possibilities to earn money.
Google is to big and diverse to go down. (at least when alphabet =Google l
>>54116302
>might try
They've got their maps, their limp-dicked attempt at car info systems, and rumors are they're trying their hand at the original TV programming game.
>>54117111
IBM's mainframe and hosting shit is still on top, they've just dropped out from the public eye.
nice try op
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCvwCcEP74Q
Out of those 4 Google is the most solid imo. Normies just love their "free" shit, they have no competition in their core business (that is google search).
Apple stands completely on their brand image and most of their revenue comes from selling overpriced hardware. As long as Apple products remain the status symbol of wannabe rich normies, they are fine, but I can see a different company taking their place in future. On the other hand they have literally boatloads of cash that should allow them to diversify their business enough to keep them safe.
Facebook - imo the most vulnerable. Could see a massive exodus of users to the next popular social network, even though they of course try hard to trap users in their system as much as possible as you can see with their acquisitions (Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus).
Amazon - don't know much about them desu, except that they reinvest everything and diversify a lot. Including B2B products such as their cloud.
Microsoft - lots of unsuccessful B2C attempts (phones, bing etc), but their core business is solid and well diversified. Not going anywhere anytime soon.
>>54117470
it's what the rest of the world calls a "period"
>>54116189
yo momma is the biggest of the 4 and is gonna die first
>>54117624
Didn't watch this.
tl;dw, what's the prognosis?
>>54117760
facebook and apple wins
google and amazon loses
but i haven't seen 2016 version
>>54116391
bing is king for porn searches
so in my mind it's not shit.
>>54116189
google does too many things right now to die, they'll probably survive more than the other 3.
Apple won't die easily. their marketing is too good for that. But they might have some difficulties if they don't innovate enough and people realize it, which can happen in the next few years.
Amazon won't die easily.
Facebook will be like any social media. His time will come sooner or later, but it will come
My bet is on facebook
>>54116498
>Facebook is literally just a single website providing a single service.
Except it's not. Facebook owns hundreds of other companies and is researching tons of other projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook
>>54117647
Speaking of Apple's cash, they might use it to act like a bank, since they already have their own version of PayPal. That might be the reason they are suddenly extremely concerned with privacy and security, and we know their security was traditionally shit.
>>54117779
Holy shit, this looks unlikely. But things might have seemed different at that specific point in 2015.
>>54116519
Amazon isn't just selling chink shit online. Almost all medium to big sites are using AWS. They have a huge foothold in the cloud computing world
>>54117820
I don't think buying off a large number of competitors is a good sign for a company.
It shows how easy it is to become a real threat to them and that they aren't doing anything irreplaceable.
Amazon could stop reinvesting in itself and hardware and become profitable overnight. AWS and such is a market they've come to slowly dominate.
Apple is fucked without jobs. Look at the past year's worth of (non-jobs) products: ridiculous thunderbolt charging things; more color and size variations instead of focusing on core products; incremental improvements; bending to perceived consumer desire and copying other hardware companies. Of course it'll be a slow death, $600 billion in cash doesn't evaporate overnight.
Google is Google. Google is today what Microsoft was in 2000: everywhere and spreading out further. But unlike Microsoft they're not testing on their laurels, they keep trying new things and fairly cheaply as well. Probably going to last another few decades.
I can't believe Facebook makes enough money off of ads to be sustainable. Probably why they keep trying to buy other stuff. If zuck is smart he should form a new parent company and start diversifying.
Microsoft goofd. They should reinvest in core business services and stop trying to internet of things everything. They just need to sit in the background and maintain where they are if they don't want to implode.
>>54116519
>chinkshit is going to overtake Amazon
Lol
Amazon is more that just its online store, it's a entire worldwide logistics company.
>>54117931
I thought they had more like $100b in cash, $600b is more like their entire worth.
>>54118009
Whatever it is is more than quite a few countries have. It'll be hard to lose it all at once.
Will be the ones on the forefront of the singularity most likely. I see them as benevolent dictators to extent. Their control of information and data on humans is probably unparalleled. And with shit like fiber and self-driving cars, they're set to control basic means of our existence, especially in a post-automation society.
None of those services will cease, but if I had to pick one, I'd go with Facebook.
Amazon or Apple honestly.
Apple: Already starting to loose what people seemed to like about them. lots of compitition from other companies. Mostly riding on rep and aesthetics now. Seems similar to how they were in the 90s.
Amazon: Opperates at extremely tight profit margins, runs a lot of high risk projects, relies on low wage labor, a lot of their warehouses loose money and a higher minimum wage could really mess them up.
The others tho...
Facebook: rendered irrelevant by some new social media.
Google: Trying too hard to make the future fails to see where things where going ends up like Xerox
facebook is done, google is going to die next once no one needs a shitty gmail or a bad search engine.
once storage catches up, people will be able to index the entire internet onto their hard drive.
>>54118282
Is that Berger?
>>54116189
>Facebook because the social networking environment is unstable and moves to rapidly, Facebook just doesn't do any ground breaking innovations to tag on. they just keep foothold on their social media network and rely strictly on the advertising algorithm on for they're one site. which is insecure as all hell and riddled with malware.
>>>which ironically is why google would be the last to fail, because they started as a search engine bought the biggest video sharing site in the world as it was booming then took over the browser and mobile market too.
>Next I would have to say Apple, History is repeating itself when Jobs left the first time the company failed. Their "innovations" tanked and they were looking at bankruptcy until Jobs came back and made a deal with Microsoft which saved the company. Apple is standing on the strictly the iPhone. OS X looks like it's doing well but is actually worse off than Linux/BSD since it has no foothold in any major market (~2% desktop Market share is it's dominate Market). Look at this year's WWDC it was a joke. They literally added nothing at all they just resold an old product. within the last 5 years they've gone from visionary to reactionary. All thanks the the death of the visionary himself. To be further noted Tim Cuck himself has made very unwise decisions for the company itself. saying things like "My iPad Pro can replace my Mac" when the tablet market has clearly plateaued.
>>54118116
That's what I see happening too
>>54116612
>Microsoft are kill, and they know it.
they can be as fucktarded as they want and they wont lose market share... the fact of the matter is ONLY Windows supports that shitty third party application. Regardless of how shitty your experience installing it was it would ONLY work on Windows. Small Business's tend to only use Windows infrastructure throughout and most IT is so incompetent they'd rather use Windows Server 2003 than Linux for a file share because they are A+ certified but afraid of the CLI.
As much as well all hate in Windows Server dominates small Business Servers (aside from web servers) and even Large Corporations Use a Windows Centered infrastructure (and maybe Linux/BSD in DataCenter's)
>>54118282
>no one needs a shitty gmail or a bad search engine.
>>or Web Browser
>>or Android based phone
>>54116189
probably facebook, heard most kids use instagram etc now, and only us old people use facebook, hope it gets myspaced soon for not updating.
>>54118749
>probably facebook, heard most kids use instagram etc now
Which is owned by facebook, ironically.
>>54116189
shitbook
the only thing thats keeping it alive is IG and WA
once that dies too they're done
It has to be facebook, younger generation is abandoning it at an astonishing rate and they don't have any meaningful business outside of the site.
Google and Amazon are diverse enough to stick around in some form for the rest of our lives. Apple are just too good at what they do, but they will certainly shrink considerably.
>>54118841
>younger generation is abandoning
For what?
>>54118963
4chan
>>54116391
Bing is alright.
So then what's the hip thing to use now ? I still see FB going strong and I hear nothing of any other type of social media outlet (Aside from Insta or Twitter)
Pretty sure MS is bigger than FB and Amazon combined. Why is it not in the big 4?
They all need to die but
Will probably die sooner than anything else but I'm sure will still be around for years
>amazon
Makes too much goddamn money from idiots to ever die
>apple
Might die if we'd ever get out of this fucking smartphone fad bullshit.
I could see Google/Alphabet dying or at least severely hurt and reorganizing since they're basically ad-supported if the industry ever crashes again like it did in the late 90s/early 2000s.
I feel like people are missing the fact that facebook has it's hands in so much shit now and has gobbled up so many companies to prepare for this. The core facebook as we knew it as just the social networking site will probably die off, but the company itself has its hands in 100 other projects to where it wont die. But if I had to pick any of these this will be the one.
>>54120495
Prolly cause it's not an "internet" company, dunno why apples there though
>>54116300
Apple is as much software as it is hardware desu
Honestly, as much as I wish Apple would go under, it doesn't seem likely anytime soon. Normies seem to love Apple for some reason I can't understand. Amazon is in good standing and I'm fine with that desu. Google just needs to learn that if people don't like something, they should try to improve it, rather than shoving it down people's throats. Either way Google will probably be fine. Facebook is the most likely to go. There's just so much else out there as far as social media, and it's becoming more and more evident that Facebook isn't keeping up.
>>54116410
>Asking your facebook name is like asking your email these days
Really? Never noticed this.
Most normies I meet will ask for my WhatsApp (i.e. my phone number) with some using iMessage when they saw me using an iPhone earlier, but mostly it's WhatsApp
Facebook is more for group activities. I have a Facebook account, but I don't really know normies who actually "post" there. Granted, I look there once a week, but still.
>>54121136
Fuck off normalfag
>>54116189
>Microsoft isn't even included here
Awesome
Anyway, Amazon and Google aren't going anywhere for a while. Apple will probably continue making billions with their mobile market and overpriced laptops. I don't think it'll happen in the near future, but I think Facebook will be the first to go.
>>54116189
1. Obviously facebook first - Social networks all eventually die and I don't see facebook turning into something else, if the owners wanted another company to do other things then they'll probably make or buy something else.
2. Apple or Amazon is tricky - I don't see apple dying out any time soon but Amazon is still massive. It completely depends on whether or not a competitor pops up to rival Amazon while new computer companies won't rival Apple. The way Apple will die is by a string of bad decisions and a lack of marketing.
3. Google - It's branched into so many different areas and it's too big to fail before the rest
Applel
The jobs effect is slowly fading
>>54116189
Facebook (the service) probably. It's not unusual for social networks to lose popularity almost overnight. Facebook the company will probably be around for a long time since Zuckerberg has invested in a lot of others.
For companies, I think Apple is most likely to die. They haven't done anything noteworthy since Jobs left. Actually they're been making their products worse by removing ports and making the most unintuitive accessories (pencil, battery case, mouse with weird charging port). If the next iPhone really doesn't have a 3.5mm jack, I think that's what's gonna cause them to lose their normie audience, which is pretty much their whole audience.
>>54117820
See Yashit. I mean Yahoo
>>54121274
I think it's enough if culture changes and it becomes cooler to have more practical devices than better looking devices and Apple is going downhill. The main reason why Apple got successful in the first place was that it valued design and looks over function. Once culture changed and started appreciating more "designer gadgets", that's when they started selling more.
>>54116189
>implying any of them will survive the onslaught of Chink superconglomerates...
>>54123363
>implying all of these companies won't transfer their whole capital into china in future
Apple is already on the verge of it.They only have to change the HQs now.
>>54123306
>implying its not already a walkig corpse
>>54116189
most plausible (inb4 digg or myspace) though still hard (google+ try and fail)
>>Amazon
not in the near future thanks to based Musk
>>Apple
too much hipsters
nothing is beating their searchengine as of now and i doubt in the near future either (even if they act as botnet)
missing
>>Microsoft
thanks to shit they doing in the last years
>mobile marketshare 5%, win10 forcing and shit
>>54116391
>in fact I reckon Xiaomi is the only one that's taken a fair stab at it.
and the reason is because they are from China and they give not a single fuck about any potentional case Apple would sue them
>>54116189
Cuckbook. It's turned into but a marketing website combined with lack of what its meant for. It's nothing more than a data mine, and horrible, 32 IQ memes.
It's already starting to lose "original" content.
http://fortune.com/2016/04/07/facebook-sharing-decline/
$50 billion
>Amazon
$65 billion
>Apple
$290 billion
$147 billion
You tell me.
Apple will be the last of them, the others are merely services which will soon become outdated.
Google will become obsolete when web 3.0 comes. That'll be a long time but still. Facebook is already dying, when trustless internet systems come into play people will buy and sell directly with each other or companies over the internet eliminating Amazon, unless they only on drone delivery as the only part of their business.
>>54125651
jesus
290b
Apple business model is literally perfect
>>54125700
If you say "Google" but mean "Alphabet Inc", they will probably be the last to go. They have their hands in so many areas of research that are guaranteed to take off in the next 20 years that they will definitely outlast the others. Hell they have so much money that their search engine could die tomorrow and they'll still continue on with AI and automation.
>>54116391
>>54116519
I agree with this. Facebook is already starting to miss out on the younger end of the millennial generation. My 13 year old brother doesn't use Facebook at all. He uses Instagram and Snapchat. I know Instagram is part of fb, but it still goes to show that adoption of social media is based mainly on hype.
Out of the 4, only Facebook is mainly social media based. And social media is the area where brand name honestly matters the least. People flock to the new hip apps, like Snapchat a couple years back. And Snapchat is a case where they refused to get bought out by Facebook. Snapchat is probably too limited in scope to become a Facebook killer, but they've shown that the possibility of becoming your own independent app is a real thing.
The other 3 companies have brand recognition, which is a very good thing. Google is a verb. Nobody says they're going to Bing something. People will order from Amazon because they don't want their credit card info stolen by a website who won't even deliver the products they say they will. And people trust Apple's hardware, and they're hooked into the Apple ecosystem. (iMessage is great for anyone who has an iPhone.)
So Facebook is the most easily replaced, but it will certainly be a slow decline, with the shit tons of cash they have. They'll most likely pivot to some other part of the market and fade into obscurity.
>>54117275
Yeq /g/ is so,trashy and shitty. It stinks of /b/ but ilwith tech
>>54116302
They seriously might if their hardware takes a plunge. Niggers would pay a subscription fee for their fucking "blue texts".
>>54116787
gnusocial