Nick Bilton at New York Times (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nick-bilton/)makes a great parallel between the 4 majors (full article at http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/a-big-picture-look-at-google-microsoft-apple-and-yahoo/?src=twt&twt=nytimesbits, same story at http://gizmodo.com/5455267/empire-building-visualizing-google-microsoft-apple-and-yahoo?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29).
This is the demonstration of a trend well established between the years.
Microsoft has remained a top player, differentiated through markets and clusters of population.
Google and Apple are getting more power as niche or mass players.
Yahoo has remained in its original scope and is becoming a minor player with the fate of disappearingm eaten by one of the others.
The difference for me stays in management and wise pursuing of opportunities (including differentiation in new markets).
The winners and the looser…
This post also at http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/a-big-picture-look-at-google-microsoft-apple-and-yahoo/?src=twt&twt=nytimesbits#preview and at http://gizmodo.com/5455267/empire-building-visualizing-google-microsoft-apple-and-yahoo?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29
How I see the world 