Armageddon: a Scorecard (updated)

I always figured that, at the climax to the End Times, Wikipedia and Google would duke it out.  But maybe by then  it’ll be a three-way shoot-out, like at the finish of “The Good, Bad, and the Ugly”:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/amazon-launches-kindle-book-lending.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/09/amazon-kindle-fire-tablet-199-7-inch-screen.html

Amazon to World:

R U Basis Ist B Wrong 2 Us ! ! !

[Update 10 September 2012]  Yipes, now Apple wades in! http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/08/apple-vs-samsung.html

[Update 20 September 2012]  Omigosh, there’ll be yet a fifth gunman at the End Times Corral:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/walmart-to-drop-amazon-kindle-products-report-says/2012/09/20/009095dc-033e-11e2-91e7-2962c74e7738_print.html

Wal-Mart said Thursday that it will stop carrying Amazon Kindle products in its stores after inventory is depleted.

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, competes fiercely with Amazon, which is ambitiously expanding the number of goods and services that it delivers straight to its customers — often through devices such as the Kindle e-reader and the Kindle Fire tablet. Retailers have been particularly critical of the online marketplace and its contribution to the trend of “showrooming.” They complain that customers often come into their brick-and-mortar stores to see or try out products that they’re interested in buying, only to leave and purchase the goods online, where customers often don’t have to pay sales taxes.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-amazon-wal-mart-20120920,0,6464012.story

The nation's largest retailer has cut out the nation's largest e-tailer.

Wal-Mart will still carry devices including the Apple iPad, Google Nexus, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Barnes & Noble Nook.

This is beginning to look less like "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" and more like "The Wild Bunch".