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This doesn't seem terribly surprising. Both Facebook and Apple are very polarizing companies. They have huge fans and also huge detractors. Google seems genera
by bjtitus 15y ago
This doesn't seem terribly surprising. Both Facebook and Apple are very polarizing companies. They have huge fans and also huge detractors.
Google seems generally "useful" to everyone. They don't tend to have the same polarizing effect Facebook and Apple have.
And, of course, Twitter is just too unused by the general public.
Even the reasoning behind people's perceptions seems relatively easy to gauge:
Facebook's core product deals with personal and sensitive information that causes privacy concerns and seems to make the service more "personal".
Apple seems elitist to some. Probably because of their historically high priced items.
Google's core product is simply giving you access to information on the web that isn't particularly personal and provides a lot of real world value to people.
- mehrzad 15y agoGoogle has also proven itself to not "be evil."
- runevault 15y agoWhile adoption isn't on facebook's level, twitter is in pretty damned wide adoption at this point. Hence you see so many people in the media pimp their/their company's twitter now (ESPN last time I actively watched it was super bad about this for example).
- bjtitus 15y agoDefinitely, but most everyday people still don't know what it does. The amount of people who are at least aware of what Facebook actually does is enormous.
- Drbble 15y agoGoogle's core product is tracking everything published about you, your every movement online, reading all your mail and personal documents and addressbooks, and integrating it with advertising profiles and pushing unwanted invasive social features into every nook and cranny.