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You clearly have some very visceral opinions about Uber and I'm sure nobody would be able to change your mind, but when the parent is saying that it'll take tim
by lhorie 9y ago
You clearly have some very visceral opinions about Uber and I'm sure nobody would be able to change your mind, but when the parent is saying that it'll take time for Uber to earn back trust, I think it is in the same sense as what happened to Microsoft.
There was a time when there was a lot of animosity towards Microsoft, but over the years, younger people that had not been exposed to the drama grew up with a more neutral stance, and many many years of not-really-dramatic developments means that nowadays, people only really think of Microsoft as the company behind MS Office, XBox, etc and not so much about what its ethics framework looks like. Obviously you can still see people referring to it as M$ and similar and making fun on windows users, but it certainly isn't _common_ for average people to outright _hate_ Microsoft on ethical grounds.
- 24gttghh 9y agoWait, people trust Microsoft now?? I don't see their pushing of Windows 10 and it's phone-home features as being entirely ethical...
- lhorie 9y agoOh come on. A five minute googling session will give you various articles talking about what telemetry was designed for and that the backlash was largely a storm in a cup of water based on ignorance and misunderstanding of the technology. Curiously, I've never heard anyone hate on Apple over telemetry.
- nugi 9y agoYes, it really is common to hate companies that make your life needlessly hard, or act in poor faith as general practice. Uber, Microsoft, Enron, Blackwater, Comcast, Oracle, all get plenty of hate, even from non techies.