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[chuckfinley]

This was an interesting article about Jeff Bezos --> http://management.fo...f-bezos-amazon/

It reminded me that Jeff Bezos doesn't follow the majority when it comes to business. He looks at what the majority is doing and takes it in a new direction, big difference.

But what really got me thinking was this article -->

Will Google take to the streets with its own retail stores? --> http://news.cnet.com...ores/?ttag=gpwl

Apple and Microsoft have taken to battling for the King of Retail outlets. Will Google join them?

But more interesting than that -- is Bezos traveling the path less traveled that will net him the brass ring by traveling in the opposite direction of the competition?

Edited by chuckfinley, 31 December 2012 - 12:41 AM.

[Ken Fisher]

Good stuff..focusing on the long term future. "Five six, seven years..." Wow, is that a huge flip flop of the mentality. Gotta love that guy.

The Gorg..well..doh, they just use their wallet to pave their way, buy out, steal ideas etc. for the most part. I don't follow the Gorg much, but how often do they come up with their own ideas?

Rant over

[bobbb]

I wonder if in that 30-minute silence where a 6-page document was read if each mobile phone was off. Heh Heh they don't mention it but I bet they were. Bet ya when he speaks to you you never answer,

?? Gorg?? = GOD ????

Edited by bobbb, 31 December 2012 - 11:51 AM.

[chuckfinley]

Good stuff..focusing on the long term future. "Five six, seven years..." Wow, is that a huge flip flop of the mentality. Gotta love that guy.

The Gorg..well..doh, they just use their wallet to pave their way, buy out, steal ideas etc. for the most part. I don't follow the Gorg much, but how often do they come up with their own ideas?

Rant over

I love rants. Gorg = google, they just think they're God.

[bobbb]

Gorg: That's what I thought. just wanted to be sure before posting.

how often do they come up with their own ideas

Isn't that true about all big companies. Microsoft in the 80's? Need a word processor to compete with WordPerfect? Buy a company. Let people pirate it for years then lower the boom. Need a spreadsheet to compete with Lotus 1-2-3? Buy a company. (MS-DOS is not done till 1-2-3 won't run) Need a database to compete with Ashton Tate's DB2? Buy a company. And so on. Really the one thing they invented to get them going was to commission someone to write an OS to compete with CP/M.

IBM did it before them. Oracle is doing it. So is HP and Intel and anyone else that is big enough with lots of cash. Why not Google?

People invent. Obscure little companies invent. So they don't work for you. Buy them out. Now they do and you invented it.

Can't compete to make money? Buy a company(s) that owns patents. Sue the pants off anyone you can. Who needs to compete?

Royalties killing you. Buy the companies to whom you pay the most. Keep what you need. Sell the rest of the krap. BINGO.

[bobbb]

In the same line of thought. Quotes by Microsoft at an FTC hearing:

YouTube, which is owned by Google, hasn't designed a Windows Phone application for its popular video service. Microsoft views the snub as a calculated attempt to lessen the appeal of Windows Phones

Hey Ballmer remember the line above? MS-DOS is not done till 1-2-3 won't run. Not so funny now Hmmm?

As a counter-measure, Microsoft has been trying to build its own YouTube app for Windows Phones for the past two years, only to be blocked by Google's refusal to license vital coding information

Hey Bill remember when Novell owned networking and you would not co-operate with them so you could Kill them? Not so funny now Hmmm?

Edited by bobbb, 03 January 2013 - 06:20 PM.

[chuckfinley]

The insteresting thing is -- I don't think that's Jeff Bezos' business model, i.e., to force competition out of the market with ruthless tactics. I think he's going the opposite direction and letting the "me too" crowd kill each other off with ruthless tactics.

That article makes an interesting point -- it says that the competition can't figure out what Bezos is up to and by the time they do, it's too late.

Jeff Bezos is a genius. I think he's going to own online retail and that's going to take a large chuck of traffic away from the search engines.

Edited by chuckfinley, 04 January 2013 - 06:42 AM.

[iamlost]

At any time but especially as an industry hits adolescence there are one or two disrupters. Some continue disrupting and others settle down or are bought to settle them down. PayPal is no longer disruptive in online payments, neither is eBay in auctions... Google and Amazon and Apple remain disruptive. Largely due to the personalities driving them. But at some point sheer size or loss of vision increases inertia beyond disruption. Time levels all playing fields.