Resources matter: you can craft few better services, but if you do not have Alphabet resources your better service can't compete. For instance how can you offe

Resources matter: you can craft few better services, but if you do not have Alphabet resources your better service can't compete. For instance how can you offer a better maps for PND if you can't elicit traffic data from the density and speed of android smartphones that are around of 80% of phones traveling around the world? To defy Alphabet you do not need a better Google, you need a different kind of solution, for instance instead of competing in modern web crap to lock down users and surveil them you can propose classic desktop computing with decentralized tools. Try looking for instance at Jami, Retroshare, ZeroNet, you can integrate them in a suite and say "hey, instead of depending on Zoom, Meet or Teams, proprietary services with limits that might change, surveil, etc use this system, there is no SPOF, no service behind". Some have tried something, for instance DeltaChat seems to be a WA clone, but it's actually a MUA, in that case it doesn't took off much because most people simply do not care, you have to know your public. Starting from CS and humanities courses [1] to attracts students and plant the seed of something new, being prepared to face years before a success simply because no empire born quickly and when some are against you it's even more complex. The old adage: people have the power, but they do not know how to use it it's unfortunately very true, you can only bend people, use them, to elicit a slice of power :-) [1] most CS students haven't enough skills to comprehend the world, they just explore few aspects ignoring the rest and that's why dictatorships like STEM, because they help to generate "ancient Greek's 'useless idiots' to be employed" instead of Citizens (disclaimer: I am an engineer, I learnt than personally in years)