The great technology battles of the past… and future
“In the long history of tech rivalries, rarely has there been a battle as competitive as the raging war between the web's wonder twins” — or so says Fortune Magazine, referring to the war raging between Facebook and Google for nothing less than “to see which of them will determine the future of the web.”
Together with Amazon and Apple, Fast Company says that these four companies are in a ferocious competition to control the future of… just about everything. From platform (Google’s Android against Apple’s iOs) to hardware (Apple’s iPad against Amazon’s Kindle Fire) to user base (Facebook against Google+) to data (Apple’s iCloud vs Amazon’s Cloud Drive vs Google Cloud). High stakes indeed.
Fast Company also points out that these companies’ “inevitable slide into irrelevancy likely won't be at the hands of one of their fellow rivals. As always, the real future of tech belongs to some smart-ass kid in a Palo Alto garage.”
Still, not all technology battles have a clear winner or loser, though some definitely do, as you can see in this great infographic from MintLife.
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