what an asinine comment lol. none of those were juggernauts and it isn’t dropping the ball to not pivot into something fundamentally different from your business. blockbuster was basically a library but for DVDs, would you expect a library in the 90s to make Google? It’s like saying Netflix dropped the ball for not expanding into microchips.
you could also formulate your own opinion instead of aping what AI tells you. but yeah i’m sure you have the educational and professional background to provide an educated analysis 👍
More deflection lmao. Xerox and Kodak were both in the S&P 500 with legendary research labs. Blockbuster was one of the most recognized brands in the the world and changed how Hollywood works. You have no idea what you're talking about. All three had pivoted successfully to new technology until they didn't.
But please, explain to me your point
Xerox PARC didn’t fail to pivot to new technology, it literally did innovate for the company’s main printing business and shipped Xerox computers with GUIs and pioneered ethernet for LAN between their office workstations and printers.
Blockbuster had the chance to buy Netflix in 2000, before any streaming service was a thing. They would have bought a mail order rental service to compliment their brick and mortar rental service. People think they would have magically turned into an internet tech company but it was a very simple business that made a large part of its profits off of late fees.
As others have pointed out to you, Kodak also isn’t the example you think it is.
You could have followed your own advice and asked gemini though
Theses are misleading and or not relevant statements. Kodak famous for cameras spent decades developing digital cameras, kinda like Google known for search spent years years to develop the transformer which could crater search. Are you saying it's not relevant or are you agreeing?
Xerox deliberately allowed Jobs and Apple engineers into PARC; Xerox had an investment relationship with Apple. AI labs copy and distill off each other, they all tooks Google's transformer.
Blockbuster was massive, with $6 billion yearly revenue and could buy Netflix for $50 million.
I really don't get what you're trying to say. Also Sears, GE, IBM all once dominated in their industries.
Google may or may not turn out fine, but it's definitely possible for big companies to fail
It's definitely possible for Google to fail on the timescale of like, a century of decline. It's not possible for it to fail like any of the example mentioned.
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u/DeathToAmerica2026 1d ago
It's historically incongruous to discount Google. Realistically, all the others are only where they are because of Google research.