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I am curious why you think Google, given its spurious record with privacy, security and labor, that it would have the best engineers? Not to mention engineers i

• gravypod 7y ago
  Everyone makes mistakes, few people make multi-billion dollar companies that shape the industry they occupy.
  • salawat 7y ago
    Few companies shape their industry as drastically as Google does. Hence the Anti-Trust probe. Nobody is that good, sadly. Every time someone has looked to be that good historically, it was because they were engaging in anti-competitive practices, and needed to be broken up.
    • salawat 7y ago
      This isn't hard to look up. MaBell, Standard Oil. It's a pretty consistent pattern. We've been pretty hands off on the trust busting simce the MaBell breakup, and the impetus to do anything about Google or Facebook has been rather low, since there hadn't been any glaringly obvious downsides to letting them do their thing. However, given certain waves that Big Tech has started to make; Oracle v. Google, making ad blocking in the major dominant browser contingent upon subscription, Cambridge Analytics, perceived political bias and activism by Dr-platforming, tech has not only made it painfully obvious the danger posed by massive stores of unbridled data collection, but that having platforms all economically centralized under a small number of stakeholders is a danger to the continued stability of "the System". It's one of those wisdom of the masses sort of things. Awareness and sentiment forming seems to have finally hit the tipping point at which enough people are onboard for something to be done about it all. Interesting times ahead.