You know I used to think Google actually had some legitimate arguments against being a monopoly by keeping Chromium, Android, and other things open source, while also allowing users to install apps outside the Google Play Store. Since then, they have essentially said they intend to make it harder for users to install third party apps, they’ve closed Android in many ways & they’ve added Gemini & more spyware into Chrome. I think there is a much stronger argument now that Google has monopolized & should be broken up. Either way, they definitely need to get rid of Pichai. He has done nothing but make terrible decisions at every turn.
Google and Facebook – ahem, Meta – are both society-harming monopolies. Microsoft (who is certainly no saint) seems like a tame monopolist circa the late 1990s in comparison.
You know I used to think Google actually had some legitimate arguments against being a monopoly by keeping Chromium, Android, and other things open source, while also allowing users to install apps outside the Google Play Store. Since then, they have essentially said they intend to make it harder for users to install third party apps, they’ve closed Android in many ways & they’ve added Gemini & more spyware into Chrome. I think there is a much stronger argument now that Google has monopolized & should be broken up. Either way, they definitely need to get rid of Pichai. He has done nothing but make terrible decisions at every turn.
Google and Facebook – ahem, Meta – are both society-harming monopolies. Microsoft (who is certainly no saint) seems like a tame monopolist circa the late 1990s in comparison.
Alphabet
Trueché.
Google could easily take market share from Microsoft. The problem is that there stuff sucks really bad.
I don’t ever want to have deal with the horrors of Google admin center ever again