opinion
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Why Facebook, Apple And Google Will Fall Like The Roman Empire
John Naughton at The Guardian has made this observation: Despite their overwhelming dominance, Facebook and Apple will eventually fall. “History should teach us that for today’s technology industry titans, the only way is down.” That goes for Google too. And Amazon. It’s inevitable.
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Android Is Popular Because It’s Cheap, Not Because It’s Good
The story goes like this: The iPhone comes out, and it’s the only smartphone anyone wants, because there’s never been anything like it. It is the smartphone. Step forward a few years, and Apple is losing to Google — at least in sheer numbers of phones being sold. What happened?
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Reminder: Companies Aren’t Your Friends
Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. All of them wonderful ways to bring together people you know, care about, or just want to stalk. But it’s easy to confuse connecting friends with friendship. Don’t. All social media companies want is to make money off of you. And they’ll never stop trying to.
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Why The US Government Must Spend More Money On NASA
Let’s speak about this one more time. We need to because the new US federal budget is coming up. The US government should — must — dedicate a lot more money to NASA. And there’s no way around it.