"If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat"

[diogen]

An interesting article (point of view, actually) about what constitutes Google business model...
Search Is Google’s Castle, Everything Else Is A Moat

Warren Buffet famously describes the best businesses as “economic castles protected by unbreachable ‘moats.’
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Android, as well as Chrome and Chrome OS for that matter, are not “products” in the classic business sense. They have no plan to become their own “economic castles.” Rather they are very expensive and very aggressive “moats,” funded by the height and magnitude of Google’s castle.
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In essence, they are not just building a moat; Google is also scorching the earth for 250 miles around the outside of the castle to ensure no one can approach it. And best I can tell, they are doing a damn good job of it.

Diogen.

 

[diogen]

That analogy did struck a nerve.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ost-defenses-can-also-be-great-offenses.shtml
http://slashdot.org/story/11/03/26/1716201/If-Search-Is-Googles-Castle-Android-Is-the-Moat

From academic discussions what "consumer", "customer", "product", etc. means to outright doomsday scenarios

John Doerr, once said “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.”
Android may be the opposite of that, the greatest legal destruction of wealth in history.

It does feel like a slow news weekend...

Diogen.