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The Five Companies that Rule the Internet had Another Great Quarter

posted by martyb on Sunday November 08 2015, @10:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the great-quarter==two-bits dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Mature industries generally come to be dominated by a few big players, and the Internet is no exception. The big players define the environment and the platforms that everyone else has to deal with; resistance is generally futile, until the next era comes along, usually many years later.

On the heels of third quarter earnings announcements, the WSJ has a piece reflecting on how much of commercial Internet activity is dominated by five companies:

This dominance didn't occur overnight.

Not coincidentally, all five companies beat analysts' earnings estimates for Q3. Microsoft, dealing with the continued decline of PC software, managed to make up for it through the impressive growth of its Azure cloud business.

Business Insider has a related piece on Amazon's dominance of the cloud segment; Microsoft is in second place, IBM and Google are struggling to keep up, and everyone else is basically tied for last.

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  • (Score: 2) by Celestial on Sunday November 08 2015, @09:12PM

    by Celestial (4891) on Sunday November 08 2015, @09:12PM (#260509) Journal

    Google is nearly impossible to avoid because, as said above, of YouTube. Want to watch a video? Odds are great that it's on YouTube. Other than YouTube though, I manage to avoid Google.

    Amazon I give money to for digital comic books and graphic novels (Comixology), eBooks, and Kindles mostly. It has no real competitor in the digital comic books and graphic novels market. The only real competitor it has left in the eBooks and eReaders arena is Kobo (at least in the United States), and their customer service is nowhere near the level as Amazon's. Plus, Amazon Prime is hard to beat.

    Apple I give money to simply because it has the best tablets and best tablet OS. Sorry, Android tablets don't cut it, at least not for me.

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