I often feel like writing about my Very Complex Thoughts about why it’s odd to me that Apple fans work so hard to demonize Google, as if it were akin to sport affinities, not handing over our money to companies with mind boggling amounts of cash on hand (though you see Apple dick measuring more, GOOG has $50BN in cash and equivalents).
Except no one hands cash to Google. Well, I do, paying for premium Apps services and additional storage (fun fact! I pony up for any premium offering because I think people should get paid for their work). But the trivial amount of money I’ve given them for the services I’ve gotten in return is ROI that is just astounding, and doesn’t force thousands of Chinese laborers to live in near slave conditions.
It seems like every day there another instance of hand-wringing about Google being EVIL NOW, even though the incremental changes that cause such approbation are always well-advertised and typically antithetical to how most people who use their services want them to function.
I guess what it comes down to is the same thing it always is: swells in the SF/SV area think the world should work a very particular way that benefits them in attention, revenue and satisfaction, even if it’s contrary to any other data, and worse, they want to lecture us on how wrong we are about the Way it Ought TO ME.
Or: didn’t we have this whole damn argument three years ago?
