Tech's 10 greatest blind spots

From Apple to Yahoo, Silicon Alley Insider spots the Achilles' heels

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Here's an interesting exercise. Rather than look at what America's leading tech companies do best, why not focus on what they do worst? That's what SAI's Jay Yarow has done in a gallery posted Wednesday. The headlines:

• Google (GOOG) doesn't get social
• Apple (AAPL) doesn't get the cloud
• Twitter's weakness is good product
• Facebook underestimates the importance of privacy
• Microsoft (MSFT) doesn't get the Web
• AOL (AOL) overestimates its brand
• Yahoo (YHOO) doesn't understand how to market itself
• MySpace (NWS) doesn't get that it's over
• eBay (EBAY) doesn't get design
• Adobe (ADBE) doesn't understand that Flash on a mobile is a lost cause

Yarow's commentary starts here.

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