Travis, I don't know if you see any irony in your comment below...
Take a pause and reflect ...especially coming from someone who makes a living by selling Internet Access ! LOL ! Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: supp...@snappytelecom.net > From: "Travis Johnson" <t...@ida.net> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 12:22:36 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SAD day > At least Apple makes products... products that literally changed the computing > world, the phone world, the retail world, created apps, and the music world. > Google created a search engine (actually copying Yahoo, Webcrawler, Altavista > and several others at the time). They aren't a "product". They don't "sell" > anything. They are a webpage, just like Facebook. > Imagine your life without Google or Facebook. NOTHING CHANGES. > Yes, they built a better mousetrap using their intelligence and hard work... > but > they aren't "inventors". They didn't create anything new or groundbreaking. > Travis > On 2/1/2016 10:09 PM, Colin Stanners wrote: >> I'd much rather Google / Alphabet Inc. be in that position than Apple with >> their >> overpriced yet restricted / non-upgradable / crappy consumer electronics. >> Google is making themselves the curator of access to the world's information >> and >> communications. When you consider the value of those, it's not just the most >> valuable company in matters of money. The founders had incredible foresight >> in >> addition to their intelligence and hard work. >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 10:55 PM, Travis Johnson < t...@ida.net > wrote: >>> http://www.ibtimes.com/alphabet-inc-goog-surpasses-apple-inc-aapl-become-worlds-most-valuable-public-company-2289113 >>> "The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by >>> little >>> ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons." >>> ~ Cosmo (Sneakers 1992) >>> Literally, a one page website for a company that is less than 19 years old >>> is >>> now the most valuable company in the world. :( >>> Travis
