2k16 what's the worst enormous tech company?

google has one useful product

then bought another useful product

I thought they developed maps, mail, docs, drive themselves?

o i forgot abt maps

thats true, but i feel like apple maps is better imo

the rest i feel are not that great, like gmail steals all yr info and sells it while something like hotmail/microsoft weirdly enough feels safer

Apple maps is not better.

Apple maps is horrible.

gmail, the useless product used by more than 1 billion people

the way google has insinuated itself into so many enterprise situations should be causing people to scream holy hell

i do scream holy hell maura rly i do

google docs is a great free platform imo, use sheets quite a lot too - better than excel by now, imo

I've no idea why hotmail, which is terrible to use, would be "safer" than gmail, tbh unless you only send encrypted mails (or only send emails to people using encrypted email servers) I don't see the difference (apart from gmail basically being faster and better than outlook

drive also my goto, prefer it to dropbox, great syncing and indexing

I would never use any other maps service than google maps

the way google has insinuated itself into so many enterprise situations should be causing people to scream holy hell

otm

but somehow i know that i won't literally scream holy hell until one of these companies (google, amazon, facebook, apple, microsoft) merges with another.

Android also much better than iOS imo, at least I can do anything faster on an Android device and really enjoy that it's customizable

I hate every google product and do my best not to use any of them

so yeah, the hegemony of google is bad, but their products are simply the best atm imo (unlike FB which is horrible, they're leading the market by chance/being there first)

if only Google paid taxes and didn't have their servers in USA where apparently NSA has a claim to look into any data transfer

why is apple maps bad? i kno they got bad press w the australians who almost went off a cliff or whatever but google maps takes me into dangerous ways all the time in the city

apple takes me through major roadways and it feels easier to drive on those streets

wasnt gmail hacked before? i dont remember hotmail ever being hacked

why is apple maps bad, I dunno, cause it's clumsier, slower and just not as powerful as gmaps, kinda like why is Libre Office not as good as Microsoft Office

Here is a great link why Apple Maps is way behind Google Map:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/a-year-of-google-maps-and-apple-maps

all i see there is google overoptimizing probably to gather more data for whatever evil way they want to take over the usa then the world

Google is gathering data at a significantly faster rate than Apple is with regards to Maps. Their machine learning capabilities are significantly above Apple's, which means that Google's is not only gathering more data but able to do more with it.

specifically, more able to sell advertisements against your behavior patterns

are they able to do more w it though? how many people actually use all those little functionalities? its the same w all their failed products

https://www.computerworlduk.com/galleries/it-vendors/google-graveyard-3508070/

machine learning is a fake idea

that google has an absurdly ubiquitous reach or that they have an insatiable thirst for data isn't what's evil about them -- it's their abdication of responsibility of using that power explicitly for the public good. if anything, they should get more data and beef up their ability to analyze such data.

some real fuckin challops itt atm

xp so what's evil about Google is that they are a for-profit corporation and not the state?

they're a de-facto public utility with a duty of care that people looking up cures for tummy aches and global warming don't end up at flat-earth homeopathy sites

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/18/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content"> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/18/facebook-to-restrict-australian-users-sharing-news-content

I think I’ve learned some valuable lessons today about posting on a phone while walking in the city

Does Facebook expect a critical mass of late Xers and Boomers to riot because they can’t see news links on Facebook?

i think they expect news sites will see a drop in traffic

I don’t know if this is just starry-eyed Utopianism but if feels that this move coooould really turn public opinion (here) against the Zuck - which given FBs seeming impregnability thus far is actually an exciting prospect