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In response to "Screenshots of the new Google Music Service. -- (link)" by Don Homer

It seems like there's a bunch of companies now that want to do the same thing everyone else is doing

Posted by Guigue (aka Guigue) Oct 21 '09, 10:19

They're making a phone? Let's make a phone too!

They're have music store? We need a music store as well!

They make a game console? We can make one too!

We end up with a lot of subpar first generation products

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FWIW, in technology, the strategy is usually to get your foot in the door with the next big thing. Get a brand going - con_carne Oct 21, 10:25 2
- I just don't think it has worked so well lately. Microsoft isn't doing too good with the Zune or the Zune marketplace - Guigue Oct 21, 10:30
- And there's a lot of gamesmanship as well, it's not so much that Company X wants to rule a certain field, it's that they don't want Company Y to. -- nm - Ender Oct 21, 10:27
Google has made quite a bit of money, taking ideas other web companies had first, and just doing them way way better. -- nm - TFox Oct 21, 10:25
Sometimes I wonder if Google does really want to take over the world. They seem to enter every market on Earth. - celedhring Oct 21, 10:23 2
- Google's a shell company for SkyNet. -- nm - TWuG Oct 21, 10:27
- Google Pocket P*ssy! -- nm - Mr. Havens Oct 21, 10:25
Well, hell, if Don Homer isn't not disagreeing, them I'm also not disagreeing. -- nm - TWuG Oct 21, 10:21
I don't disagree. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 21, 10:20

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