The products are you and me, not the search engine. And they're already
produced quite a bit of material on what you and I like, whether you
like it or not or whether you interact with Google directly or not. Any
page that has adsense tracks your browser footprint and builds a
database on you. I'm sure in the completely fictional scenario of them
'loosing' the search engine they'd find some way to still roll adsense
through partner sites and YouTube into something somewhat viable. Sure
it would be a big blow that would take the wind out of their sails. But
now we're dealing in a weird realm of what-ifs... Will Apple survive in
the long term without Jobs? If they don't I feel like following your
logic that then completely discounts all their production lines and
physical products. He was their *one thing* that propped everything
else up, then, if that's the case.... no? But maybe I'm just reading it
wrong?
You seem to think the single Search Engine page is the product, its not.
You and I are the product, and at this point we've been well produce,
packaged, and sold to advertisers, and as we age and our interests and
hobbies change the profile get updated (and our new interests an retro
interests can be marketed separately!) and as our Kids get on the
internet and Google links my Kid's interest to my "Profile" and they
start sending me Ads for stuff HE wants for Christmas (which they
already do)... Don't get me wrong, the search engine is a huge part of
the platform, but the 1 Billion gMail users and the 1.17 billion Google
Search users and the 1 billion viewers who make 4 billion Youtube video
views per day are the product. Advertising is what drives all the "big
producer" companies that you seem to deem more fit of the title or place
of world's most valuable company. So, its sort of all about how you
look at it. The company with the widest reach, and the most niche
information, that can drive Advertising for all the producers to the
most customers and to the right customers that will actually go out and
by that product..... If Google is the grease of the world's producer's
wheels then I think they do deserve some significant credit for being
able to parlay that into being the highest grossing company worldwide.
That's just my take on it though ;)
Regards,
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------ Original Message ------
From: "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 2/2/2016 1:22:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day
If the search engine goes away, so does everything else they are
involved in. None of the other "products" are profitable on their own.
Travis
On 2/2/2016 10:22 AM, Sam Kirsch wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
There's a little more to them then just a Search Engine ;)
I don't see how anything changes with Apple not being around either.
There's absolutely nothing in an Apple product that's super
groundbreaking... Many companies had already attempted to combine a
PDA and a Cell Phone long before the iPhone, they just did it the most
mass marketable way first. And that goes for just able every Apple
product I can think of. MP3 players existed. Music platforms
existed. They just weren't unified and mass marketed in the same
way... so, Apple really just copied a bunch of other guys too (and has
been doing that since the company's inception, the mouse, the GUI,
etc) NOTHING CHANGES ;)
-- Samuel Kirsch, Network Support
Plexicomm - Internet Solutions | www.plexicomm.net
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------ Original Message ------
From: "Travis Johnson" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 2/2/2016 12:22:36 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day
At least Apple makes products... products that literally changed the
computing world, the phone world, the retail world, created apps, and
the music world. Google created a search engine (actually copying
Yahoo, Webcrawler, Altavista and several others at the time). They
aren't a "product". They don't "sell" anything. They are a webpage,
just like Facebook.
Imagine your life without Google or Facebook. NOTHING CHANGES.
Yes, they built a better mousetrap using their intelligence and hard
work... but they aren't "inventors". They didn't create anything new
or groundbreaking.
Travis
On 2/1/2016 10:09 PM, Colin Stanners wrote:
I'd much rather Google / Alphabet Inc. be in that position than
Apple with their overpriced yet restricted / non-upgradable / crappy
consumer electronics.
Google is making themselves the curator of access to the world's
information and communications. When you consider the value of
those, it's not just the most valuable company in matters of money.
The founders had incredible foresight in addition to their
intelligence and hard work.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Travis Johnson <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113
"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's
run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just
electrons."
~ Cosmo (Sneakers 1992)
Literally, a one page website for a company that is less than 19
years old is now the most valuable company in the world. :(
Travis
