> Why does it feel like no other software company has these sort of branding issues? This caught my eye. My initial reaction was to disagree that google was a

> Why does it feel like no other software company has these sort of branding issues? This caught my eye. My initial reaction was to disagree that google was a software company and that it's more of a "tech/search/social media" company. Microsoft is a software company, not google. But the longer I think about it, the more it becomes apparent that google is a software company. It just provides its software as a service/subscription for your data.