“Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
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Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#2I've worked hard at distancing myself from Google. It seems their motto "Don't be Evil" has about as many asterisks behind it as they can manage. Every product they design seems to be built from the ground up to enable data collection, and every advertiser they partner with seems to have build plausible deniability into every aspect of the "product" they claim to deliver. I can't point to anything in particular, but whenever I use any of their software it just feels...creepy.
At the moment I'm still tied to Chrome for bookmark sync but that's about it.
Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#3I've worked hard at distancing myself from Google. It seems their motto "Don't be Evil" has about as many asterisks behind it as they can manage. Every product they design seems to be built from the ground up to enable data collection, and every advertiser they partner with seems to have build plausible deniability into every aspect of the "product" they claim to deliver. I can't point to anything in particular, but…
I've replaced Google Maps with my iPhone's Apple Maps, and I barely use e-mail other than for transactional matters, so I'm pretty close.
What's your recommendation for e-mail replacement?
Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#4I've worked hard at distancing myself from Google. It seems their motto "Don't be Evil" has about as many asterisks behind it as they can manage. Every product they design seems to be built from the ground up to enable data collection, and every advertiser they partner with seems to have build plausible deniability into every aspect of the "product" they claim to deliver. I can't point to anything in particular, but…
I've replaced Google Maps with my iPhone's Apple Maps, and I barely use e-mail other than for transactional matters, so I'm pretty close. What's your recommendation for e-mail replacement?
Personally, I really like Fastmail. The web interface is pretty good, and I usually just use native clients anyway.
Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#5Google has a ton of competition across all of its products. It's dominating in some of them but being better then your competition is a lot different then there not being any.
Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#6I've worked hard at distancing myself from Google. It seems their motto "Don't be Evil" has about as many asterisks behind it as they can manage. Every product they design seems to be built from the ground up to enable data collection, and every advertiser they partner with seems to have build plausible deniability into every aspect of the "product" they claim to deliver. I can't point to anything in particular, but…
> It seems their motto "Don't be Evil" has about as many asterisks behind it as they can manage
Surely they just removed two letters, and an apostrophe?
Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#7I've worked hard at distancing myself from Google. It seems their motto "Don't be Evil" has about as many asterisks behind it as they can manage. Every product they design seems to be built from the ground up to enable data collection, and every advertiser they partner with seems to have build plausible deniability into every aspect of the "product" they claim to deliver. I can't point to anything in particular, but…
I've replaced Google Maps with my iPhone's Apple Maps, and I barely use e-mail other than for transactional matters, so I'm pretty close. What's your recommendation for e-mail replacement?
I've fallen in love with Outlook.com. I know, I know, Microsoft is just as if not more evil but frankly I've found their commitment to privacy to carry very well through the service, plus, the spam-blocking is excellent. Best I've used.
Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#8I've worked hard at distancing myself from Google. It seems their motto "Don't be Evil" has about as many asterisks behind it as they can manage. Every product they design seems to be built from the ground up to enable data collection, and every advertiser they partner with seems to have build plausible deniability into every aspect of the "product" they claim to deliver. I can't point to anything in particular, but…
> At the moment I'm still tied to Chrome for bookmark sync but that's about it.
You can sync bookmarks with Firefox, too. And you should be able to migrate your bookmarks just as well...
Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#9Google has a ton of competition across all of its products. It's dominating in some of them but being better then your competition is a lot different then there not being any.
Google beats the competition in some markets because they have so much power in other markets.
If you start a startup even in cloud photo storage, and suddenly Google Photos comes along, you’re dead. No one will fund you anymore, and you’ve basically lost.
Google has such an immense amount of network effect, and of knowledge they can gain from dominating in other markets, that if Google enters a market – unless there’s regulations or network effects that prevent this – they immediately dominate it.
Re: “Google Is as Close to a Natural Monopoly as the Bell System Was in 1956″
#10I've worked hard at distancing myself from Google. It seems their motto "Don't be Evil" has about as many asterisks behind it as they can manage. Every product they design seems to be built from the ground up to enable data collection, and every advertiser they partner with seems to have build plausible deniability into every aspect of the "product" they claim to deliver. I can't point to anything in particular, but…
I've replaced Google Maps with my iPhone's Apple Maps, and I barely use e-mail other than for transactional matters, so I'm pretty close. What's your recommendation for e-mail replacement?
I just host my own email these days. Not going to rely on any 3rd party anymore.