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I was thinking about The Fall of Google in the shower today and how it could happen while seemingly more evil Amazon is flourishing. The reason I think comes d
by pgt 6y ago
I was thinking about The Fall of Google in the shower today and how it could happen while seemingly more evil Amazon is flourishing.
The reason I think comes down to Google's unwillingness to let engineers talk to customers. If even 10% of the engineers at Google were talking to customers inbetween sitting on multi-coloured bouncy balls and having political in-fights with PM competitions for who could destroy and relaunch Google Chat the fastest, they would still be winning instead of me typing this in Mozilla Firefox on an iPhone with DuckDuckGo as the default search engine.
- nuker 6y agoGoogle customers are corp's marketing departments, not people. People are natural resource for Ad data mining, which usage should be taxed or licenced by govs, btw, like oil. Amazon just sells stuff, so customers are people.
- rocqua 6y agoYou still gotta 'manage' your natural resources. Lumberjacks try and keep the forest from burning down. Miners keep their tunnels from collapsing. Similarly, google should manage their users better. 'Should' here is not meant as a moral imperative. It is meant as "If you want decent profits, you should do this".
- nuker 6y agoThey do, they insert "privacy" in all comms, fancy new switches in apps, trying their best to look concerned. And it works, people feel good after flipping off yet another "privacy" switch.