2k13 what's the worst enormous tech company?

the good news is Amazon just bought a robot company last year so they can hire fewer people to move things around warehouses

i actually voted amazon fwiw

silby is actually a robot iirc

it's true I have a cold metal heart

By market cap, for the curious:

AAPL: 416.62B
GOOG: 268.44B
MSFT: 234.83B
ORCL: 172.04B
AMZN: 119.01B
FB: 63.47B

Facebook clearly the worst at being an enormous tech company

SAP: 100.85B

ahem

yeah, and IBM is 239.53B and they don't really make computers anymore, they are basically in the same line of business as Oracle and SAP. So much money to be made off of making miserable accounting and ERP software.

sap and oracle are horrible but they don't really work well w/ the rest of this group as a set, like they're not about to release a social network or a delivery service or w/e

oracle and sap and ibm can have their own poll

can't believe all these companies are making so much money of clouds, tbh, you can get free clouds just condense some water droplets in the atmosphere

we could poll telecom equipment companies: cisco, lucent, juniper, nortel, fujitsu, HP, etc

you should save that one for the future court cases xp

plz yes we need more boring polls

veg otm

facebook is just crm software with data entry done for you

let's poll internet backbone providers like Level3

also can we plz poll utility companies

I don't even know who the main ones are anymore! Back when I knew their names mci and sprint were still entities

ooh and dental insurance

idk, ILM polls musicians who are virtually identical, down to country, style of music, age, and gender. at least these companies provide diff services

I'm pretty sure my dental insurance comes from someplace like "Dental Insurance, Inc."

like beatles or rolling stones, they're both full of white british dudes, who gives a shit

amazon are a monopoly, dodge taxes, aren't even that cheap any more because they rely more on creaming off the wild west that is their marketplace (which is rife w/ incredibly suspicious sellers operating on an industrial scale) & bully even the biggest publishers for more margin incredibly blatantly. everything milo said too.

sorry mh guess I touched a nerve

idk, I think the "clever" people who have been stating that "if you think amazon is a company that sells books or even material objects, they are winning" might be on to something

not really I just find most ilm talk interminably repetitive

:)

amazon are prob the most objectively evil, which is funny cause everyone loves them

I did find a large poster in a Microsoft product box I was throwing out this week, though. Not going to wallpaper my cubicle with it anytime soon, though.

xpost

but iatee

they send me stuff

in the mail

idk, I think the "clever" people who have been stating that "if you think amazon is a company that sells books or even material objects, they are winning" might be on to something

― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Sunday, March 17, 2013 6:46 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

amazon mostly sells books and material objects!

what are your opinions on the unibomber xp

imagining him on a unicycle and lol'ing sorry

lol vg

well unAbomber sent bombs in the mail which wasn't very nice

amazon send me books and cds and things that I want so

Amazon have been a company more about making the supply chain and delivery of products more efficient, sometimes at the expense of local stores. In that way, they're like a new Wal-Mart, but in their overall portfolio delivery of physical products is just one type of supply chain they've collapsed. Currently they're killing VMWare and other virtual server providers.

yeah but what % of their business do you think that represents

http://www.zdnet.com/amazons-aws-3-8-billion-revenue-in-2013-says-analyst-7000009461/

idk, 3,8 billion seems like not much to sneeze at

sorry for comma, I am not euro

its not the majority ill save you the time

iatee did amazon send u bombs in the mail

oh it has to be the majority to be relevant, I guess it's a hobby or something

idk, I think the "clever" people who have been stating that "if you think apple is a company that sells ipads or even material objects, they are winning" might be on to something

BECAUSE ITUNES SEE, so clever

I think focusing too much on how much money they currently make on this or that is misleading, like some of these things are decade-long investments

that they can all finance w/ their respective monopoly profits

i love all these companies, they are all so big and scary, make me feel like im livin in a stross novel

Bezos is pretty involved with this if you want to know his actual hobbies http://longnow.org/clock/

gmails big advantage was functionally unlimited storage - and all the pre google search engines were terrible the entire internet was made up of huge keyword paragraphs!

― lag∞n, Sunday, March 17, 2013 2:51 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

yah it was def a very big deal when it launched.. i think this was before the era of Big Terabyte and having like, a 200GB hard drive was still a Big Deal, and people were really starting to feel the squeeze from torrenting everything. so like, even though in practice nobody really took full advantage of the Unlimited Storage, the concept of it was very powerful

typo silby you put an extra l in