Quote:
Originally Posted by RWebb
With such market dominance, how did VisiCalc end up folding?
With such market dominance, how did Yahoo end up folding?
With such market dominance, how did Lotus 123 end up folding?
|
You of course know the answer. A bigger company came along and either provided the web browser for free, or bundled the software with a office suite of programs for cheap.
Microsoft just killed the pay for web browser market with a free program as part of the OS. They killed the office program market by having Office virtually free, in education formats.
For years there were a dozen or more "Presentation" software packages. PowerPoint just eliminated the competition. Now Office is a major cash cow for them.
Google became dominate by making it "free" and they just sell the information you provide to them to sell you stuff.