Yahoo, Myspace, Further back AltaVista, AOL. Tech and every non-subsidized "too big to fail" industry is littered with dead or no longer relevant "notta chances".
And you should really work on not letting your biases against the messenger influence your opinion of the message.
If you notice in my comment, I said that I had read the article in an attempt to disabuse myself of any preconceived notions.
The article failed to do that. In short, I don't see either of those two companies failing barring some horrendous unexpected event.
As for the messenger, I just find it kind of funny (in a sad way) that one of the last bastions of a dying industry is predicting the imminent death of one that's alive and kicking.. more so one that has an issue with quality control and FUD-filled headlines.
It's like the buggy whip manufacturers saying these newfangled steam buggies will never go anywhere.
Thoughts after reading the article: "Hah! Notta chance."
Perhaps a bit of "Hmm, that's pretty interesting coming from a dead tree magazine.." /s