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CharlesW 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Apple and Microsoft (as well as companies like Commodore) were there for personal computing’s birth. Amazon, Google and Meta came far later and didn’t invent their respective industries.

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9rx 18 hours ago | parent | next [-]

HP sold what they called a "personal computer" in the 1960s, well before Apple and Microsoft came around. It wasn't exactly what we consider to be a personal computer nowadays, but MySpace wasn't exactly what we consider social media to be today either. I'm not sure these things happen in discrete steps like you seem to imply. There is a clear continuum. I think it is quite fair to say, for example, that Meta help define its industry like Microsoft and Apple helped define theirs.

There will never be exact replicas of Apple and Microsoft again, but there undoubtedly will be many companies in the future that we will eventually look back upon in the same way.

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seanmcdirmid 17 hours ago | parent [-]

You are confusing the first personal computer with the rise of personal computing. Inventing a product isn’t very useful if you don’t invent the product market as well.

	▲	9rx 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Huh? The entire comment is about that rise. Did you stop reading after the first few words?

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pests 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Amazon did quite literally invent their respective industries - AWS and the cloud?

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scarface_74 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Google is an ad company that can’t make another significant product to save its life.

Meta under Zuckerberg has been able to stay relevant. But FB is already seen as being for old people.