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Sean Byrnes's avatar

I agree with the concept, and conclusion about AI, but the parallels here aren't quite

accurate. Google didn't exist during the pre-standard phase of search, it has already been done by Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc. Google launched a better product into a mature market.

And the telephone lacked a pre-standard phase since it was dominated by a patent which guaranteed a monopoly for the Bell Telephone company.

Uber is a good example, although I am not sure their victory is worth what they paid. All mobile-native companies thrived in the pre-standard days of mobile, just like Yahoo thrived in the pre-standard days of the web.

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