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Something strange happened Monday on the Internet.
Facebook -- the once-underdog social network founded by a kid in a hoodie in a dorm room -- may have officially cemented its status as a titan of the tech establishment it once challenged.
A company becomes uncool when its business model becomes about creating a quasi-monopoly. It happened to Microsoft, then Google, then Amazon and now Facebook. Nobody likes a behemoth. Apple seems to be the exception. They're smart in targeting only the high-end segment of the market (where all the profits are). This allows them to make obscene amounts of money while seeming like a scrappy, niche player.
A company becomes uncool when its business model becomes about creating a quasi-monopoly. It happened to Microsoft, then Google, then Amazon and now Facebook. Nobody likes a behemoth.
There was also AOL, which briefly appeared to be synonymous for the internet.
There is other social media that is still under the radar, not yet mainstream, but I don't think Facebook is exactly in its final death throes of lameness and/or uncoolness.
Wait until FaceBook goes public, and further abuses members desperately with more and more intrusion to support the shareholders' demands for increases in profitability every quarter and each year.
It will evermoreso become the definition of "uncool."
Me, I've grown tired of seeing whose vacation pix outshine everyone else's..it's gotten a bit too one-up-manship to me...yawn...I want more substance...but I suppose it's cooler for the younger folks or those with grand-babes...
A company becomes uncool when its business model becomes about creating a quasi-monopoly. It happened to Microsoft, then Google, then Amazon and now Facebook. Nobody likes a behemoth. Apple seems to be the exception. They're smart in targeting only the high-end segment of the market (where all the profits are). This allows them to make obscene amounts of money while seeming like a scrappy, niche player.
Apple can be grouped with them as well. There's a big backlash against the App store.
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