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Google today is like the Microsoft of 10-15 years ago. Grossly dominant, arrogant, user-hostile, and thinking they're above the law. Microsoft got knocked off t
by amanzi 8y ago
Google today is like the Microsoft of 10-15 years ago. Grossly dominant, arrogant, user-hostile, and thinking they're above the law. Microsoft got knocked off their perch and are a much better company today than they were 15 years ago. Google's turn to fall is rapidly approaching.
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoImplying Microsoft wouldn’t turn back into the scumbag it used to be, had they regained their market dominance.
- eigenbom 8y agoThere's no implication there.
- liftbigweights 8y ago> Microsoft got knocked off their perch and are a much better company today than they were 15 years ago. Microsoft didn't get knocked off their perch. They won the antitrust fight. Do you remember microsoft being broken apart? I don't. And they aren't a much better company today. They are arguably an even bigger privacy threat since they are leveraging their ubiquitous OS to gather data and to sell ads. > Google's turn to fall is rapidly approaching. Microsoft never fell. They are ahead of google in the race to be the next trillion dollar company. I wouldn't hold my breath thinking that google is going to fall. Especially if you think microsoft "fell".
- thrower123 8y agoGoogle is much less adept at avoiding the ire of antitrust agencies, particularly under the current administration. Google is considerably more evil in the popular imagination at this point.
- slededit 8y agoWere you around back then? It’s realy hard to describe how much MS was hated. There’s nowhere near that animosity towards Google today.
- thrower123 8y agoI was, and it seemed absurd at the time. Bundling IE with windows is no different than the current status quo, where Apple defaults to Safari, or Android defaults to a Chrome version. Google's incredible monopoly in search looks like a large target.
- SystemOut 8y agoThere are other search engines and one can easily just type bing.com into their browser and set it as the default. Even on Chrome. I'm not sure why you remember MS the way you do. There was a much much larger barrier for consumers to move to a different OS. If you owned a PC you pretty much had to run Windows. And MS made it extremely difficult to use a non-IE browser in the OS. That doesn't mean I think they're innocent in all things but I don't see how their search market share is a monopoly target.
- thrower123 8y agoI have never used IE as my primary browser... I'm sort of amazed at anyone that does use the OS-native browser as their default, because it has almost always been an inferior choice.
- vishnugupta 8y agoFor the vast majority of the target audience (i.e., not tech savvy mostly) Internet is the OS-native browser. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't know what a "browser" is in the first place. As an analogy, during my childhood days when photocopiers came out in India they were mostly Xerox machines. So Xerox became a verb and has stayed a verb to this day. So much so that you will find "Xerox shops"[1] in all Indian cities and people won't understand what a photocopier shop is :-) [1]: https://goo.gl/maps/M2TSWXLfqc22 https://goo.gl/maps/M2TSWXLfqc22
- arountheworld 8y ago> and are a much better company today than they were 15 years ago I disagree. Have you ever tried to deal with them? I've never experienced a company so hostile towards a customer. They are as money hungry as they were a decade ago, if not more.