[monitorman]

Duck Duck Go? Really?

[m463]

(tongue in cheek)

The point was that large unstoppable incumbents have always been replaced with something nobody expected.

(that said, monsanto and debeers are still around)

[isostatic]

IBM is still around. So is Microsoft. So is Google.

[notyourwork]

IBM is basically on life support milking their consulting business and pretending Watson does stuff it doesn’t to further their consulting business.

[m463]

IBM was unstoppable, then Microsoft came from nowhere.

Microsoft was unstoppable, then nonexistent Google appeared.

(yeah, microsoft/google/apple have vied for "current top money vaccum")

[nickv]

As a reminder, Microsoft is the largest company in the world and has a 25% larger marketcap than Google.

I find it funny that so many people think Microsoft was "stopped" by Google. They adapted and they are stronger now than in the 90s as a business.

[jjeaff]

Debeers is on its way out. They may come up with something to stay relevant, but they are getting desperate to come up with ever more sophisticated machines to detect man made diamonds from their mined blood diamonds.

[Gigablah]

IBM and Microsoft are still around, too. I don’t get your example.

[PostOnce]

Microsoft not only is still around, it has a 25% higher market cap than Google.