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I recall well that there was a time when Microsoft was at the pinnacle of IT. No one could imagine the pecking order changing.

Before desktop PCs it had been IBM at the top.

And then along came the internet and the mobile phone. Google to the top. Challenged by Meta when social turned up.

Now AI is the new thing that will take off. I’m sure of that now; the piano has left the window.

I’m just waiting for OpenAI to launch their own mobile OS, fully AI enabled.

Although that would be like Google with their cloud version of Office. It’s a lot of effort to reinvent the past, which its already obsolete.

The odd thing is, in each generation of technology it’s a new firm that dominates. The old ones hang around like old dead fish, milking their residual revenues whilst badly trying to compete in the new thing.

It’s a cultural thing. Once they have transitioned to full corporate mode with journeymen employees, they can’t compete any more.