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.
Think you're being somewhat overly technical. Google became the standard for the world is my point - Alta Vista never was, Yahoo had traction but no one ever said "go yahoo it" :)
Oh, but they did! Yahoo was equivalent to Google in those early days. The difference is that Yahoo dominated before there were many Internet users. Google came along after the market matured and there was a larger audience.
I was a Yahoo user and never said "to yahoo" ...I vividly remember using multiple search engines back in the day too, and then one day just using Google
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.
Think you're being somewhat overly technical. Google became the standard for the world is my point - Alta Vista never was, Yahoo had traction but no one ever said "go yahoo it" :)
Oh, but they did! Yahoo was equivalent to Google in those early days. The difference is that Yahoo dominated before there were many Internet users. Google came along after the market matured and there was a larger audience.
I was a Yahoo user and never said "to yahoo" ...I vividly remember using multiple search engines back in the day too, and then one day just using Google