The question feels irrelevant even for me as a full-blood engineer. Why would being a tech company be a thing? Without doubt Google has created a lot of impres

The question feels irrelevant even for me as a full-blood engineer. Why would being a tech company be a thing? Without doubt Google has created a lot of impressive tech and it's still using a lot of tech. I used them for search between 1998 and 2021. I used gmail since the beta and I still have a couple of accounts, although mostly as dump grounds for various purposes, I have not sent anything for years. At work we use paid Google office. It's not excellent, but certainly better than what Microsoft and others have to offer. That does not hinder that it has become too big for functioning market economy a long time ago. I am not interested in the advertisement market at all, but I am pretty sure it is seriously disturbed by Google's dominance. The mobile phone market is completely sick. Apple's products are not bad by all measures. But on one hand I prefer cheaper choices in many cases and often don't pay for premium products. And as a tinkerer or hacker I would certainly not pay extra to get into a walled garden. So the only "choice" I would have is to prostitute my privacy and let Google track my whole life. Sorry, but I can't help it: Google is evil and needs to be broken up. P.S. I still can live 98% without Android. But it gets tighter all the time. Soon there might be no bank or at least no decent choice. I understand travelling in the US might a serious pain because getting taxi-type service without an app controlled by the duopoly can he very difficult. But luckily I have stopped travelling to the US anyway, since the creation of Homeland security and the Snowden revelations it's not a place I as a foreigner want to visit anymore. The relevant question for me is: Is Google bad for humanity or not? And I think my answer has become more than clear.