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I chose Facebook as my number 1 and Alphabet as my number 2. He then goes on to rant about how amazing and utterly irreplaceable and amazing Google is and how

• falcolas 9y ago
  > how amazing and utterly irreplaceable and amazing Google is > It's very easy not to use Google services Both can be true. Which is more true for you depends on how much of the ecosystem you (and your peers) use. For example, the previous startup I worked for used Google services quite extensively. Chat, hangouts, documents, spreadsheets, drive, email, calendar, even YouTube... the cost of moving off would have been quite significant, for very little benefit. The company before that didn't use Google at all, and instead used IRC, NFS/SMB servers, and private MX servers. They functioned fine, though many of the non-tech users were beginning to grumbling about the benefits of moving to Google (because that was what they were familiar with). There's a bit of a sunk cost fallacy which always comes up when talking about moving off Google, but that doesn't mean the cost of replacing everything Google provides is anywhere near zero - especially when it comes to convenience. In a way, Google's offerings have become the new Microsoft Office suite - used not because they're the best at any one thing, but because of all the value provided by everything together, and the familiarity of incoming users with that suite.