3 ms·
> Google is bent on establishing platform domination unlike anything we've ever seen, even from late-1990s Microsoft. With `bent` you mean like they're trying
by mythz 12y ago
> Google is bent on establishing platform domination unlike anything we've ever seen, even from late-1990s Microsoft.
With `bent` you mean like they're trying to build the best products people would want to use? What should they do instead, not try as hard?
> Google controls Android, which is winning; Chrome, which is winning; and key Web properties in Search, Youtube, Gmail and Docs, which are all winning.
IOTW success of a competitor is bad.
- specialp 12y agoNo they should try as hard as they can. Bent meaning look at the amount of resources they put in to have a piece in every aspect of someone's internet/app experience. The reason why they got involved with everything is that they faced threats to their web business from other companies bent on dominating the whole platform (web/cloud apps) This is a good thing too. But as developers and techies we know what happens when one company becomes too dominant. This benevolent create competition part could end up with us being in the same situation the web was in 10 years ago. We can all get lazy and say well Chrome is great and so are a lot of these web services Google makes that are slowly but surely moving away from standards. But the tech community possesses the resources to help keep Google honest, and Firefox is a major tool in that.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoExactly. The reason Google succeeded is because they made really good (often the best available to date) products. I think whatever type of "monopoly" they now enjoy is well deserved, and apparently, they still don't abuse it and crank out great products instead.