For me, even if I hated Google --which, unlike the author of TFA-- I don't, I'd still kinda like them because it's often interesting to make the ennemy of my en

For me, even if I hated Google --which, unlike the author of TFA-- I don't, I'd still kinda like them because it's often interesting to make the ennemy of my ennemy stronger. I'm an "abm": "Anything But Microsoft" and I do firmly believe that the day MS produce something that doesn't suck it's going to be a vacuum cleaner. And at one point the future looked bleak: Windows at something like 97% market share and some crappy IE version was slowing down the Web -- and slowing technology as a whole (the story of MS). I'm very happy that we know have to gigantic players: Apple and Google, giving MS quite some headaches. The last thing I'd want would be Google or Apple to sink and see MS reign king again. So to all the Google-haters out there (and they sure seem numerous on HN): be careful what you're asking for... The past was bad. I don't think anyone really want to go back to that dark past.