Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Internet Search is So 2015, with Stefan Weitz | Big Think" video.

  1. Luis Dias Very interesting to hear your perspectives. Take care.
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  2. Luis Dias I very much look forwards to a day when Google is just one of many large data organisers. Monopoly is never good for the market. The one time they had the chance to use their might for good in China, and they weasled out.
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  3. Meanwhile, Britain's government is attempting to introduce internet scrutiny and anti terrorism laws that make North Korea look moderate. Just what I want - a detailed biometric of my every thought, and every interaction. :-( The future has some VERY dark days in it.
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  4. Luis Dias I think your problem is that your statement was simply too broad a generalisation. Whether Microsoft buys its way into the future or develops its own products, so long as it is there, it will be relevant so long as it prudently acquires companies that make the whole greater than its parts. With the sort of revenues they have, and their ubiquity in the operating system market, I really think that calling them irrelevant is an overstatement. Perhaps if you were trying to make the case that Microsoft is no longer at the absolute cutting edge of computing technology, you might have had a better argument, but bickering over the relative importance of office is a massive irrelevance. It appears to me that the company has perhaps made some missteps, compared to say Apple, but it think it's premature to write them off yet. It is my understanding that Microsoft is involved in wide ranging research into projects as diverse as data storage, mobile communications, genetics and cosmology. However, I would be interested if you were to clarify what you mean when you say that the company is NOT relevant, and what sort of companies ARE relevant?
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  5. Luis Dias Ah okay. thank you for clarifying. In fairness, I was responding to the thread not your original comment. So as a matter of interest, why do you think Microsoft keeps getting things so spectacularly wrong? Right product wrong time? Wrong product? Or other things entirely?
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  6. Luis Dias Perhaps you're correct Luis. One would think with such resources, and such a diverse portfolio, that they could do better but they always seem to arrive late to the party nowadays, or arrive at the wrong party entirely. Maybe it's the consequence of being monolithic, but Apple doesn't seem to suffer from the same problem.
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