Has anyone else noticed this? Every unprofitable company is suddenly describing themselves as an operating system. Instacart is the operating system of the grocery industry. Twilio is the operating system of communication. Etc. TC 175k
Uber for operating systems
The app store?
Cringe
Wait, I didn't know we were talking about Apple fan boys
Except Instacart is profitable 🙄
[citation needed]
Instacart was profitable for the second quarter of this year under generally accepted accounting principles, according to a person familiar with the matter. https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/instacart-aims-to-go-public-before-years-end-defying-a-frozen-ipo-market-11659037083
It’s to intimidate its competitors to not follow its footsteps
But who will make the operating system for the operating systems? 🤔
What a business opportunity. We’ll call the system: Inception.
Moon Macrosystems
My OS professor used to say every sufficiently complex program is indistinguishable from an operating system. Make of that what you will
I have an operating system to sell you…