14 December 2011 - 21:18The big two

I got a feeling that out of the current companies which shape the way people use the internet (Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon) Google and Amazon have the highest odds to continue do so in the future. Apple seems too concentrated on making devices and Facebook seems trapped into social media, for better or for worse. Google and Amazon lack a specific purpose, purpose which ultimately acts as a constraint, and as such have a much higher degree of freedom to adapt to the future.

This is not to say that Apple or Facebook are not profitable enterprises, or that their products are fads approaching their expiry date, only that they are bound by the very field they choose to dominate. Just a feeling…