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Whenever I read about how powerful these companies are, it sends chills down my spine.
Wait until you learn what governments are.
I don’t understand how this is even a remote comparison lol
If we’re worried about power there are other much scarier organizations to criticize first
I pray for Google to completely fail the pivot to AI. We don't need another surveillance capitalism company using AI to make us even dumber and more addicted to screens. I so hope that Google goes down. (And I pray the same for Facebook and a couple others).
Huh? Why are you railing against Google? Because of YouTube? How's Google Search making you addicted to screens. At this rate, you'll hate Apple for making iPhones so damn good, or Starlink for giving really good internet access. You line of thinking is - gosh, these companies are providing an excellent service, and I hate them for that?
The incentive for Apple or Microsoft is to make a good product that you will gladly pay for. This is very different.
A good restaurant makes an excellent product bit it doesn't mean that I will spend 5 hours there.
Don’t know about catching up to AWS, but given the state of Azure, anyone with enough data center investment should be able to overtake it.
When you are already into some combination of Office, Windows desktops, Active Directory, .NET, SQL Server, Github Copilot, then Azure feels like the natural cloud transition.
Google banked on "Edge" for IoT as well, prior to that it was their network edge is better use them from compute. It's a failed strategy that won't work this time either.
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They'll buy your politicians who will give them zero checks on raising energy prices or poisoning your children's minds
Have they been doing this? Evidence?
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/09/...
Don’t know about catching up to AWS, but given the state of Azure, anyone with enough data center investment should be able to overtake it.
Azure secret juice are Microsoft shops. When you are already into some combination of Office, Windows desktops, Active Directory, .NET, SQL Server, Github Copilot, then Azure feels like the natural cloud transition.
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Huh? Why are you railing against Google? Because of YouTube? How's Google Search making you addicted to screens. At this rate, you'll hate Apple for making iPhones so damn good, or Starlink for giving really good internet access. You line of thinking is - gosh, these companies are providing an excellent service, and I hate them for that?
The incentive for those Adtech is to keep you hooked as long as possible so they can sell you more ads, and making you lose your only real currency in life: time. The incentive for Apple or Microsoft is to make a good product that you will gladly pay for. This is very different. A good restaurant makes an excellent product bit it doesn't mean that I will spend 5 hours there.
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Not that I'm opposed to new laws, but just having enforcement of the laws we already have would go a long way to fixing the problems. The problem is how to get to the point where there is enforcement. It definitely isn't going to happen with Republicans in power, and it also isn't a sure thing with Democrats in power either. Lina Khan was a good start for a bit there, but she certainly didn't have universal Dem suppo…
I will preface by saying that someone with Lina Khan is sorely needed; Big Tech and other monopolies have gotten way too Big and seriously need to be reined in. That said, from all the informed takes I've seen, Lina Khan was seriously... flawed (putting it charitably) in her strategy and tactics. To the extent that some observers wondered if she was deliberately sabotaging the agency just to highlight the need for ne…
Nothing noble about that stance, that's continuing to feed the Big Tech monster.
They are very much part of the problem that needs to be solved and they didn't like that she was starting to push for the solutions.