How big is too big?
Who can compete with Amazon?
How about AliExpress? - Cheaper, just as convenient, just as good quality, just as big.
This same argument was made against Microsoft before Google came along. When Google started making an OS everyone said it wold never compete against the might of Microsoft. Now look at it.
Just because you are big and you have market dominance, does not mean you'll keep that dominance. Someone will come along and challenge for it.
And as weird as this is I posted about the demise of retail just 2 days ago.
I also like going in to the shops and having a good browse, but things out this way are so overpriced that a poor kiwi just can't afford to shop locally any more.
Good points and questions but when you are so big that nobody else stands a chance of competing against you then I think you are too big. That becomes all the more pertinent when you are not just trying to dominate one particular type of product but multiple ones.
Not exactly.
Google has a successful mobile OS. It has never challenged Microsoft on desktop - their monopoly there is still intact so I don't think that is a fair comparison.
If anything it illustrates the reverse - nobody can take Microsoft on when it comes to their core business.
But was that Google's intent? Or did they have the vision that the desktop was dying so instead of trying to compete in shrinking market, they targets an emerging market - mobile.
Now Google dominates in so many areas. but other players are now coming out to challenge them.
This is just like my back garden and the ongoing war of the weeds. Every now and then one weed will take over everything and you think nothing will ever compete with it. a few months later and the picture changes, and other weeds start making inroads and soon the dominant weed is struggling for survival.
it's quite fascinating to watch ;-)
I think dominance is not a bad thing when it brings benefit toe producers and customers alike, and the corporation skims a bit off the top.
That's fair enough because it helps everyone.
But when the corporation sees the producers and consumers as resources to be mined solely for corporate profit, then that's bad.
Good point and that is perhaps how monopolies die - they become obsolete.
Yes. I think the sad thing is that this attitude seems to emerge within organisations once they get to a certain size.