← Back to context Comment by codeulike 16 days ago Google and Facebook have failed to do this, so why is that? 3 comments codeulike Reply g947o 16 days ago Failed to do what?I'm sure you can find good analysis of why specific products failed.And both Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta have a bunch of side projects that are reasonably successful. codeulike 16 days ago They have failed to diversify, is what I meant, despite being around for approx 2 decades codeulike 16 days ago Lets look at diversification of revenue:meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertisinggoogle $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% otherapple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app store etc), 9% otheramazon $638b revenue in 2024: 64% amazon store+associated services, 17% AWS, 9% ads, 11% othermicrosoft $245b revenue in 2024: 40% azure/server products, 22% office, 10% windows, 9% gaming, 7% linkedin, 5% search+ads, 8% otherI'm not particularly a microsoft fan, just making this point because I think MS is poorly understood by the HN crowd
g947o 16 days ago Failed to do what?I'm sure you can find good analysis of why specific products failed.And both Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta have a bunch of side projects that are reasonably successful. codeulike 16 days ago They have failed to diversify, is what I meant, despite being around for approx 2 decades codeulike 16 days ago Lets look at diversification of revenue:meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertisinggoogle $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% otherapple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app store etc), 9% otheramazon $638b revenue in 2024: 64% amazon store+associated services, 17% AWS, 9% ads, 11% othermicrosoft $245b revenue in 2024: 40% azure/server products, 22% office, 10% windows, 9% gaming, 7% linkedin, 5% search+ads, 8% otherI'm not particularly a microsoft fan, just making this point because I think MS is poorly understood by the HN crowd
codeulike 16 days ago They have failed to diversify, is what I meant, despite being around for approx 2 decades codeulike 16 days ago Lets look at diversification of revenue:meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertisinggoogle $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% otherapple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app store etc), 9% otheramazon $638b revenue in 2024: 64% amazon store+associated services, 17% AWS, 9% ads, 11% othermicrosoft $245b revenue in 2024: 40% azure/server products, 22% office, 10% windows, 9% gaming, 7% linkedin, 5% search+ads, 8% otherI'm not particularly a microsoft fan, just making this point because I think MS is poorly understood by the HN crowd
codeulike 16 days ago Lets look at diversification of revenue:meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertisinggoogle $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% otherapple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app store etc), 9% otheramazon $638b revenue in 2024: 64% amazon store+associated services, 17% AWS, 9% ads, 11% othermicrosoft $245b revenue in 2024: 40% azure/server products, 22% office, 10% windows, 9% gaming, 7% linkedin, 5% search+ads, 8% otherI'm not particularly a microsoft fan, just making this point because I think MS is poorly understood by the HN crowd
Failed to do what?
I'm sure you can find good analysis of why specific products failed.
And both Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta have a bunch of side projects that are reasonably successful.
They have failed to diversify, is what I meant, despite being around for approx 2 decades
Lets look at diversification of revenue:
meta $164b revenue in 2024: 98% advertising
google $350b revenue in 2024: 76% advertising, 12% google cloud, 12% other
apple $391b revenue in 2024: 66% hardware (iphone, ipad, mac), 25% services (app store etc), 9% other
amazon $638b revenue in 2024: 64% amazon store+associated services, 17% AWS, 9% ads, 11% other
microsoft $245b revenue in 2024: 40% azure/server products, 22% office, 10% windows, 9% gaming, 7% linkedin, 5% search+ads, 8% other
I'm not particularly a microsoft fan, just making this point because I think MS is poorly understood by the HN crowd