Is Google doomed?

Is there anyone in charge of the Cloud? Who's running the show anyway.  Usually by this time we could clearly see who it is. I think there are a few people who think they are running the show, Google for example. Let me pose the question with a statement: Did you know that IBM invented the smart phone and they didn't invent the computer; that Xerox Corp. invented the mouse driven computer and they beat out the established RCA in the copier business; that the company that invented the dot matrix printer, Centronics, and is responsible for the computer interface for printing, is no long in business and was formed by the company that invented word processing Wang Laboratories, who is no longer in business either and who also invented the first desktop personal computer?  How about this one: Compaq invented the first hand held digital audio player with disk storage.  Can you say iPod?  Exxon dominated the business fax market in the 1970's, then in the 1980's Rockwell invented the fax chip and neither of these companies developed into today's leader in business fax. It goes on and on and on.  Billion dollar businesses too!


Well the road to technology leadership is littered by innovative companies that failed to recognize the potential that their inventions had. Who missed the signals and why did someone else realize the potential? Are successful companies so drunk with their success they just can't move or what? So is Google doomed?  I hope not.  I'm in their corner all the way. I hope that they can realize that first and foremost they are an innovation company not a search company. They focus 70% on search and not enough on innovation. They are creating huge opportunities and we need that.  But in looking at history and  I realize that the odds are against them.  These other companies were billion dollar companies too!


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