Forbes: Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years

avatar33 said:
What "old internet companies" are you referring to? You gonna compare Google/Facebook to Altavista, Geocities or NetZero?
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AOL? do i need to discuss this one?

Yahoo? read above.

Kodak? bankrupt.

SAP? Trying to sustain itself through buying other companies.

Motorola? good thing google is buying mobility. They completely failed. Android saved them from total disaster.

Dell? LOL

Myspace had quite a chunk of money too (the whole news corp behind it, to transform it to the new age entertainment money making machine) but failed too.

RIM? I can't really figure out if anybody has ever screwed up more than them. Perhaps Lehmon brothers and Bethlehem steel.

1 moment you got money. You blink, and then you don't. If you were once big, that speaks nothing about the future. You can take for reference Apple after Jobs departed from the CEO position. Talent management is what gets companies to survive through the years, not how much money they made in the past. Talented coders, designers, accountants and people like that a dime a dozen, good execs are 1 in a million.

People thinking some companies can't die because "OMG THEY GOT BILLIONS" is just stupid. Many companies that had billions died. Because of poor management. Many will in future too.
 


avatar33 said:
The way I look at it is that when you have BILLIONS sitting in your bank account, you can adapt to anything. Sure they might lose some money, but to go as far as saying they'll disapppear: lol.

Pretty sure even McDonald's or Walmart could start an Internet business tomorrow and be successful. When you're at the top of the corporate pyramid it's very hard to fall down all the way to the bottom.

Cash Rulez Everything Around Me.

Cash Rules Everything Around Me.
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I completely agree with this. Forbes is just trying to drum up clicks, this is how they make their money these days. I guess no one is subscribing to their print rag mag.
 
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Tomaz said:
I completely agree with this. Forbes is just trying to drum up clicks, this is how they make their money these days. I guess no one is subscribing to their print rag mag.
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They also wrote an article that my small hometown is a TOP 10 TOWN to start a business (which is very doubtful. way too much corruption). And we have banners in our town pimping that article. I'm pretty sure our town paid them like $5k to write the article.
 
momchil9 said:
AOL? do i need to discuss this one?

Yahoo? read above.
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Ok I'll credit you for these 2 companies. And MySpace. The others are not internet companies.

AOL and Yahoo, you're right, they had the money, lacked innovative spirit... but did they disappear?

I guess it comes down to what Gambit said, you need both money + innovation. It seems to me that Facebook and Google are on the right path.

Nothing is eternal on this earth, but I don't think these 2 brands will be foreign to my grand children.
 
They are tech companies. And they failed because lack of innovation, despite their tremendous pile of cash.

btw, I think that this is a pathetic linkbait and pathetic article. But being sure that google/facebook/any company can't lose their edge is not a smart thing to do.

Of course they might be here for our grandchildren. It's just not a sure thing. They have to work for it.

They have had only one echelon of exec people running the company. You can't judge their long term potential, because you don't know who will succeed Zuckerberg as CEO. (and a lot of other executive officers, you've never heard of, but are pretty damn important)

Hope that makes sense for you.
 
They are all vulnerable. Every last one of them. Microsoft was king of the fucking hill for 2 decades and I see them at a crossroads right now. They still command a strong presence in the desktop world, but that world is shifting and they are really struggling to make as much of an impact on the mobile platform.
 
momchil9 said:
They are tech companies. And they failed because lack of innovation, despite their tremendous pile of cash.

btw, I think that this is a pathetic linkbait and pathetic article. But being sure that google/facebook/any company can't lose their edge is not a smart thing to do.

Of course they might be here for our grandchildren. It's just not a sure thing. They have to work for it.

They have had only one echelon of exec people running the company. You can't judge their long term potential, because you don't know who will succeed Zuckerberg as CEO. (and a lot of other executive officers, you've never heard of, but are pretty damn important)

Hope that makes sense for you.
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Like I said: none of those companies disappeared. I have no problem believing that Google can turn into AOL or Yahoo within a couple years, but to tell me that Google or Facebook can be wiped off the map? Not gonna happen anytime soon.

Remember, the article in the OP's title is: Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years - Forbes

Big Linkbait title right there.
 
I think several of you underestimate how large Google is, and how much they invest into R&D. Will the Google of 10 years from now be a completely different beast than today? Of course.

Will Google continue being the pioneers of innovation? There's a good chance. Not 100%, but I'd say they have a pretty decent shot. They're investing in everything from self-driving cars, asteroid mining, mobile technology, higher speed free broadband, and the list is absolutely endless.

And I find it a bit ironic how this article mentions that Facebook will disappear due to the internet going more mobile. Goto your Facebook wall page (I know you have one), and look at the posts. About 60 - 70% of them have taglines like "Posted from my iPhone / Android / Blackberry", or whatever. Can't really see how Facebook will be wiped out due to mobile internet usage.
 
Fatbat said:
Yes, but in less than a year from now, more than 50% of people using the web are going to be doing it on a mobile device, a phone or tablet, not a desktop or laptop.
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Yep and phone/tablet/mobile devices users don't use Google/Facebook.
 
Why people think the mobile platform will replace desktop/laptops?

In reality they'll simply become more integrated in the future. People will be using both in better harmony.

Pushing to make desktops and laptops obsolete with little ass phones is just silly. You simply can't do every faucet of online business that needs to get done on a tiny phone without it being a pain in the ass due to the size of the phones.

Which is why these platforms will merge more and more in the future. Google and facebook won't be going anywhere, but they'll definitely need to be more mobile friendly. Either through voice recognition software or some other innovations.
 
I often scan through long articles and just pick out the shortest sentences first in order to decide if I'm going to read it... On this one I saw:

We will never have Web 3.0, because the Web’s dead.
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That's all I needed to read... LULZ!

OP (at forbes) is a fag. That is all.
 
kingofsp said:
It boggles my mind how much people fail to apply reality to these types of scenarios and go on prophesying as if the whole world is comprised of people within five years of their age group and in a similar social class.
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So very true.

ly2 from WF said:
using the internet and playing games form a cell phone is about as enjoyable as sawing my cock off with a butter knife
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So very true.

momchil9 said:
Talented coders, designers, accountants and people like that a dime a dozen, good execs are 1 in a million.
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You obviously are NOT a talented coder fag. You can have the BEST fucking CEO on the block running things. But you need innovative coders dickweed to get the job done. You think you can just design the architecture of an iPhone with non-innovative coders?

Ok I am sorry I called you dickweed and fag. Statements like that piss me off though :)

Gambit said:
They also wrote an article that my small hometown is a TOP 10 TOWN to start a business (which is very doubtful. way too much corruption). And we have banners in our town pimping that article. I'm pretty sure our town paid them like $5k to write the article.
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Which brings me to the reason I was replying to this thread.
It was a well written article and I enjoyed it. Until I realized it's really easy to say "Google and FB are going to be GONE in 5 years oh my !" then I realized the true intent of the article.

If you read between the lines it is a pitch for Windows 8 dudes, let me quote the tell-tale part of the article...

WJ
 
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