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Comment by shakow

4 days ago

VisiCalc, CP/M, BlackBerry and Yahoo definitely got a golden goose; it's long after establishing their dominance that they failed at maintaining it.

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stingraycharles  4 days ago

Isn’t that exactly what’s being discussed re: OpenAI? They seemed unstoppable a few years ago, but have lost quite a bit of reputation and their position of technical lead.

  • shakow  4 days ago

    What I mean is that the one I cited were first movers that actually found a golden goose, then got ousted years/decades later for various reasons.

    For now at least, OpenAI has not found a golden goose (i.e. made a lot of money) yet.

  • wickedsight  4 days ago

    > have lost quite a bit of reputation

    in the tech world, maybe. All my 'normie' friends are using ChatGPT though and have no concept of their reputation, nor intention of switching. Most people I know are hardly even aware of alternatives, even of Gemini, though everyone has a Google account.

    I personally also use ChatGPT and have zero reason not to, currently. I might switch if they royally mess up, but everything they've messed up has been fixed within a day.