Personally Google scares me, and it's getting worse with each Google I/O. The concern for me is Google seems like they will 'win' the game of software corporat

Personally Google scares me, and it's getting worse with each Google I/O. The concern for me is Google seems like they will 'win' the game of software corporation. MS seem to be slowly tanking with little future in them unless they tear down their basic business practices, they seem destined to become a patent troll company. Their Windows 8 UI failure, mobile and tablets don't seem to be going well. Apple have their stuff but Google have the data and the backend and now they are basically placing themselves to do everything their rivals do. Google have huge amounts of data and it's all locked away. Like how they where talking about user contributed Google maps on day1 keynote, they are asking the community to give them data for their financial gain. They are very good at using opensource to their advantage without giving anything that could rival them, for example Android, it's built on Linux but has their framework that basically makes it it's own OS. The dev is done in house so really the openness is very one way. Much of the useful stuff is propitiatory gapps. Everything is sold through the Google App store. We have OpenStreet maps, why couldn't they have worked in with them? Or at least make community contributed stuff under a CC license. OSM also did the charity mapping stuff for disaster sites first, then Google came along and fragmented things with their own clone. A lot their new maps stuff seems to be work done using peoples phone pictures. I worry about what will happen if we get a real Google AI. That's basically a 'you win the computers'. AI could do away with an economy (at least on the individual level) and give us a utopia. Will Google at that point cease being a corporation and do things like open up their data and algorithms for public use and drop their tracking? Or will they keep their power, continue to slap ads on everything which will be sold via some kind of fake virtual currency. Maybe if we have AGI we could just have it to make open versions of everything. Assuming we get AI other than from Google. Maybe their AI will be instructed not to aid in the creation of other AIs. Or even see legislation passed to required licensed AI creators with the AI already in existence enforcing it. Having said all that, I much, much, much prefer a Google world to a Microsoft (sociopaths) or Apples (total control) ones.