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From what I’ve observed, Google was an anomaly that helped build trust in Big Tech (and lured me into it). AFAIK, developers had strong reservations against Mi
by hedayet 2y ago
From what I’ve observed, Google was an anomaly that helped build trust in Big Tech (and lured me into it).
AFAIK, developers had strong reservations against Microsoft before the Google era, and it was only after Google’s rise that Silicon Valley became attractive to top talent, leading to a shift in the tech landscape. Now, with the decline of Google’s culture, that trust seems to be fading as well.
Unlike traditional corporations, Google used to be trusted by investors, employees, users, and the general public — I can’t think of any other company that checked all these boxes.
- badlibrarian 2y agoGeneral Electric had a good run and ticked those boxes, as did many corporations until the 1980s. Then incentives changed.
- null_shift 2y agoAsking in good faith, what incentives changed exactly?
- ceejayoz 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation#1970%E2%80%932000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation#1970%E2%80%932000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation#Reagan_administration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation#Reagan_administra...
- 42772827 2y agoTrust in “Big tech” reaches back into the early 20th century with Bell Labs. If this topic interests you, I highly recommend “The Master Switch” by Tim Wu: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/176/ https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/176/
- scoofy 2y agoCTRL+F: "Tim Wu" I'm shocked and dismayed that this book is not more prominent. The book opened my eyes not only to the fact that these companies would become enshitty, but why they weren't in the first place.