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1: Facebook, no question there. I never had an account, nor do I ever plan on getting one. This is one company I'd like to be rid of, please. 2: Amazon, there'
by Yetanfou 9y ago
1: Facebook, no question there. I never had an account, nor do I ever plan on getting one. This is one company I'd like to be rid of, please.
2: Amazon, there's plenty of other options and - at least in Europe - I don't see any specific advantage to Amazon anyway.
3: Apple, overpriced lifestyle is not my style and I don't particularly like their attitude in many ways, nor do I like the idea of them having enough cash to buy a small country. It is not so much that I begrudge them their success but that I wonder what that power will eventually be used for.
4: Microsoft, using Linux since 1992, OS/2 before that, another company I won't miss having around. Having said that, as long as Apple is around I'd like to keep Microsoft alive as well, just like I wanted Apple to be there to make sure Microsoft did not gain a 100% stranglehold on mainstream personal computing.
5: Alphabet - or should I just say Google. I use some of their products in 'customised' form, Android without Google-proprietary stuff, the search engine without persistent cookies. I don't have a Google account though so I'm not tied to them by more than a search setting in a browser (Seamonkey, Firefox, Chromium, ...). There are other search engines, there are other mobile operating systems.
- midnitewarrior 9y agoDon't forget that Microsoft was a top Linux code contributor for awhile, and that OS/2 was a partnership between IBM and Microsoft. Microsoft is everywhere.