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March 02 everything old is new again.So, a recent converation with the geeks that I work with has led me to some interesting conclusions about the current state of the tech industry; I thought this might be a good place to document them. In the coming weeks, as I find interesting, relevant references, I'll come back to update this post.
so here goes:
Yahoo is the new Google.YHOO seems to be taking the lead in aquiring, developing, and delivering the best online, web-based tools for end users. Flickr, Delicious, Y!Mail, and Y!Maps are best of breed. In this business 2.0 article outlining the next top 25 apps, Yahoo is named as an "incumbant to watch" due to their recent aquisitions and developments.Google is the new Microsoft.Is there anyone left who doesn't get that Google is Evil? When I read my tea-leaves, they tell me that GOOG desperately wants to mine my personal data (all of it), so that it can more sell my attention to the highest bidder. Evil. (lets not even mention the goverment privacy concerns?). According to Delicious, Google is tagged evil almost twice as much as Microsoft these days.Microsoft is new Apple.From where I sit, it looks like Microsoft finally gets that hardware, software, and services must be simple, engaging, attractive, usable, and trustworthy. (are you following the buzz on Oragami?) This may be old hat to apple folks, but this is new grounds for MSFT.Apple is the new Sony.Like sony, Apple's well deserved reputation for innovation, quality, and reliability is eroding quickly. APPL is years late in delivering their digital living room story. Constantly shrinking a device doesn't count as innovation. And a cheap speaker system doesn't come close to HiFi.Sony is the new IBM.It's hard to tell who's pulling the strings inside PS3 sometimes; I thought IBM big metal had cornered the market for overly complex, vector based, developer-un-friendly, pie-in-the-sky systems architectures, but apparently, SNE has been gurgling that kool-aid as well. PS3 will truly be a mainframe in your living room... but will it be a great family entertainment hub?
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