Google: Get 'Em While They're Young
Apple had an Ivan Putski-class lock on the education market in the 1980s --
that is, until Microsoft started giving away and steeply discounting software
for schools. The Apple II and Mac may have been cute, but free is free, and
cheap is cheap.
Google is now trying to do the same thing to Microsoft. The company is not
just giving away spreadsheets and word processors (these Google apps are, after
all, already free), but is offering
to store students' and teachers' files. Ten years from now, we may look
back and view this as the time Google's application monopoly first started to
emerge!
Posted by Doug Barney on December 05, 2006