Quote:
Originally Posted by jeff061
I'll compare them more with AOL than MySpace. MySpace was a crappy product from the start, got lucky, sold out to an idiot and died.
AOL was immensely successful, but in the long run it's closed off nature killed it. Same will likely happen to Facebook. Google doesn't necessarily want everyone to come to Google+, they want everyone open on the internet like they've been for the last 10 years. Google owns the internet, they are everywhere. But they are not in Facebook.
Facebook on the other hand only owns their territory. So it's Facebook trying to keep a fenced paradise you'll never want to leave and Google trying to prevent Facebook from accomplishing that goal.
|
Google's success of the Android is a big chip at Apple. The open nature of Google will keep the "gates" unable to fully close.