Think about it again and there is no war. Facebook is the market leader in what they do with no real risk of defeat. Skype is the market leader in what they do and it's only real competitors used to be from Microsoft, but now there part of Microsoft.
Really it's just a lot of market leaders uniting. Microsoft helped Facebook out by paying a huge amount for some Facebook shares, effectively increasing Facebooks value, and in return Facebook has been open to partner with Microsoft of everything. Apple and Google get to struggle on their own to crack the social market, unforunately nobody cares as they allready use Facebook.
boy, are you missing the action. Google's ambitions go far beyond its extensive cloud services, and social is its main target today. which means Facebook. the widespread Google cloud is a great starting point for the attack. it already does a lot more useful communication/location things than Facebook can.
meanwhile, Facebook's kid genius thinks he can rule the social world and then expand beyond that into ... and thereby be the next Google. or bigger.
Skype is a utility, a new kind of telco. Google will probably start its own version of that too. that is their M.O. and as to "social," MS is just a wannabe, not a market leader.
Apple is not a wannabe, and is not trying to "crack" social. Apple is just adding social/communication conveniences to its software to keep its hardware popular and sell more hardware. that is why this thread's whole "competition" meme is silly, not a strategic analysis.
Compatibility is a dying if not dead dream. The WWW was kind of the peak of achieving some kind of compatibility but everything now is degenerating into proprietary battles.
sure. Google is not shy about blatently copying other companies successful products/services. and to be fair it invents/adds more of its own, like Google Voice. and all its voice UI stuff. A Google version of FaceTime based on your Google address book makes total sense. there is more to Skype, but Google wants to be your one stop shop for everything to do with communication and search. why wouldn't they go for it?
Well, we only have three browser architectures now, and they're all fairly compliant to the standard since they're not allowed to make up their own crap anymore.
But that's only web browsing, which isn't even one-tenth of the standardization that needs to go on.
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Think about it again and there is no war. Facebook is the market leader in what they do with no real risk of defeat. Skype is the market leader in what they do and it's only real competitors used to be from Microsoft, but now there part of Microsoft.
Really it's just a lot of market leaders uniting. Microsoft helped Facebook out by paying a huge amount for some Facebook shares, effectively increasing Facebooks value, and in return Facebook has been open to partner with Microsoft of everything. Apple and Google get to struggle on their own to crack the social market, unforunately nobody cares as they allready use Facebook.
boy, are you missing the action. Google's ambitions go far beyond its extensive cloud services, and social is its main target today. which means Facebook. the widespread Google cloud is a great starting point for the attack. it already does a lot more useful communication/location things than Facebook can.
meanwhile, Facebook's kid genius thinks he can rule the social world and then expand beyond that into ... and thereby be the next Google. or bigger.
Skype is a utility, a new kind of telco. Google will probably start its own version of that too. that is their M.O. and as to "social," MS is just a wannabe, not a market leader.
Apple is not a wannabe, and is not trying to "crack" social. Apple is just adding social/communication conveniences to its software to keep its hardware popular and sell more hardware. that is why this thread's whole "competition" meme is silly, not a strategic analysis.
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Skype is a utility, a new kind of telco. Google will probably start its own version of that too...
Are you serious?
"No separate accounts, no separate websites to go to. The download is small and easy."
? and all your private calls are automatically uploaded to YouTube!
Compatibility is a dying if not dead dream. The WWW was kind of the peak of achieving some kind of compatibility but everything now is degenerating into proprietary battles.
That dream died with the browser wars.
Are you serious?
sure. Google is not shy about blatently copying other companies successful products/services. and to be fair it invents/adds more of its own, like Google Voice. and all its voice UI stuff. A Google version of FaceTime based on your Google address book makes total sense. there is more to Skype, but Google wants to be your one stop shop for everything to do with communication and search. why wouldn't they go for it?
That dream died with the browser wars.
Well, we only have three browser architectures now, and they're all fairly compliant to the standard since they're not allowed to make up their own crap anymore.
But that's only web browsing, which isn't even one-tenth of the standardization that needs to go on.
This is NOTHING to do with facetime. This is aimed squarely at Google+'s 'video hangout' feature.
Was about to say the same thing... and the response was underwhelming from Facebook.
Google+ looks like it's going to give FaceBook a serious challenge to monopolize the social market.
Luckily Apple is staying away from social (just partnering with twitter) given it's not the company's strength.