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Point is Google can offer services like Docs for free and still invest money in continually improving them because it sells advertisement-space on its free prod
by galaxyLogic 5y ago
Point is Google can offer services like Docs for free and still invest money in continually improving them because it sells advertisement-space on its free products.
Sure you could build your own. But how would you finance the maintenance of your software and its free-for-customers delivery platform? Answer: By either selling advertisement, or by charging people for using it.
The problem really is that by now Google has monopoly. Therefore it is difficult or impossible for you to compete with them.
- lazyjones 5y agoAs a user, I don't need to compete with Google. I just need an alternative. If I needed collaborative document editing (as a replacement for Docs, a feature I don't use), I'd probably try something like https://www.samepage.io/ https://www.samepage.io/ . My only use of Docs at the moment is for maintaining some stock price calculations and tracking with the =GOOGLEFINANCE(...) function. There's probably some personal finance apps out there that do the same.