My friend Charles writes:
Boy, there’s just a sort of background hum in everything about getting too big and trying to be too many things.
IBM was crushed in the 80s and had to reinvent itself.
Microsoft looks like a utility that occasionally tries to dress up for the ball and ends up wearing last year’s Prada knock-off from the Dress Barn.
AOL was so ahead of the curve back in the day that it ran itself into a ditch.
Sun was the backbone. Now, it’s a cup of coffee.
Yahoo opened the door to wasting your whole life online until Google made general portals irrelevant. (We waste away, all the same.)
Facebook and MySpace have the kids enthralled, but it still feels like kid stuff.
Apple looks like a juggernaut today, but….
So let us not badmouth the Yahoos of the world too much. In their day, they rocked. Now, they’re rolled.
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