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Google is benevolent but incompetent. Microsoft is evil but competent. Difficult choice.
by What2159 2y ago
Google is benevolent but incompetent. Microsoft is evil but competent. Difficult choice.
- pimlottc 2y agoI don't know that this is true, but to even suggest that Microsoft is the component one vs Google really shows how much things have changed in the last 20 years...
- consumer451 2y ago> Google is benevolent Honest dumb question, how is Google benevolent in comparison to MS these days?
- Cyberdog 2y agoAgreed. “Google is good and Microsoft is evil” is a take from two decades ago.
- samtho 2y agoGoogle is indifferent, almost worse than evil - which can be predictable.
- nottorp 2y agoTbh i'd rather have my code somewhere where my account can't be automatically banned by an "AI" without any possibility of reaching a human...
- ThrowawayR2 2y agoGoogle was never benevolent, no for-profit business is. It was baffling to me how many developers took "Don't be evil" at face value, particularly for an almost completely advertising funded (i.e. highly motivated for enshittification) corporation.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> It was baffling to me how many developers took "Don't be evil" at face value In my opinion a little bit more care must be taken here: The "don't be evil" slogan was in my opinion both a blessing and a curse for Google: a blessing in that people initially trusted that Google does not intend to do something evil; a curse in the sense that when they started doing things that were considered "evil", it lead to a massive reputation damage for Google.
- myself248 2y agoGoogle was benevolent, but DoubleClick was evil. Slapping the Google name over the DoubleClick business model was the greatest swindle ever pulled, and people STILL don't see through it.
- spacechild1 2y ago> Google is benevolent Citation needed