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		bee_rider on Jan 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure That sounds like the stories we used to hear of Microsoft. It only took them like, what, 2 decades to get things back together?

pmontra on Jan 20, 2022 [–]

It took them the failure to dominate the next two new markets and the fear of remaining rich but becoming marginal.

With the internet they had a success with IE but saw companies developing their services with new non Visual*/.Net languages and running them on Linux and MySQL.

With mobile they lost on all the line.

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