[samfisher83]

Nokia had 75 billion dollars in revenue 10 years ago. The cell phone part of the company is gone today. Basically all of googles revenue comes from ads.

Its very unlikely, but if 10 years ago if someone said Nokia wouldn't be making cell phones in 10 years ago who would have believed you.

Everyone was on AOL in the late 90s and now its mostly gone. Tech is just so fast moving I could see it happen. It just isn't likely.

[niftich]

I'm not sure the Nokia analogy applies here. Nokia faltered because others came along and made better phones, where most of the 'better' was because of the app ecosystem of the underlying OS -- but still, they were beaten at their own game, and they only made phones. If you didn't buy a Nokia phone, Nokia was out of your life for good.

Google makes many different kinds of things, making it less likely that Google will be thoroughly replaced in people's lives.