Apple, who brought us freedom of information to our hands versus amazon who has 2-day shipping.
Sorry, Apple wins.
Google has no legitimate decent search engine equivalent.
I guess it makes sense in that most people probably use something of Amazon’s everyday. We, like 100 million others, are Prime subscribers. I don’t shop at Amazon much (though my wife does), but I do use Prime Music and Video almost everyday. I don’t use Google at all, short of Google Earth Pro (the real version that Google has stopped updating) for work. I will live with the slightly worse results of Bing to keep away from Google as best I can.
I guess it makes sense in that most people probably use something of Amazon’s everyday. We, like 100 million others, are Prime subscribers. I don’t shop at Amazon much (though my wife does), but I do use Prime Music and Video almost everyday. I don’t use Google at all, short of Google Earth Pro (the real version that Google has stopped updating) for work. I will live with the slightly worse results of Bing to keep away from Google as best I can.
I'm like you; I don't use Google. Have you tried DuckDuckGo? I just love their entire view on privacy, and I think it's a decent search engine.
That isn’t really fair. Google is undoubtably a tech company. Yes, their financing is primarily from advertising. But, just because they may prioritize research around this model, it doesn’t make them any less a tech innovator.People don't seem to understand that Google is an advertising company disguised as a tech company.
Alll of you are missing the bigger points here. I know this maybe an unpopular opinion. But nevertheless here it's:
Google:
1. Can you think of search any other way? We don't even use the word search anymore. We say "Google" it. That much of an impact it has put.
2. Gmail: all.of you who are complaining, I bet 90% of you use Gmail.
3. Map: do I need to say anything here?
4. Industry changing techonology: large scale database concept, golang, angular and many more. And they don't use it for proprietary development like swift
Amazon:
1. Shopping: I don't have to say how much it has changed your life. You don't need to bargain. The price is always less.
2. Kindle: best reader out there. You know how competition tried and failed.
3. AWS: I don't have to tell you what it has done the technology world. Most startups are possible today because of AWS.
4. 2 day shipping: before Amazon, nobody knew you could have such shipping.
You can see how society has been impacted positively by these two companies. Apple: more money for less tech.. that's the impact they are giving it to the society. They are teaching us that once you have your customer by balls, squeeze them as hard as you can. All they can do is moan and groan! If you think that's positive impact, I am sorry.
Irony.. you can't do a single thing on your idevice without Apple telling you. The more torubling for society is apple where people are not realizing how much they give out their own moeny to be controlled by a company.Google has a more positive impact? Yikes, society is in a bit more trouble than I thought
(picks up copy of 1984 and continues reading)
That isn’t really fair. Google is undoubtably a tech company. Yes, their financing is primarily from advertising. But, just because they may prioritize research around this model, it doesn’t make them any less a tech innovator.
Did you miss the Facebook's congressional hearing where Zuck had to explain how their service is free? If not, read that and apply it to Google. And if you still think Google and /or Facebook are ad companies, then you have to understand what is technology.People don't seem to understand that Google is an advertising company disguised as a tech company.
Did you miss the Facebook's congressional hearing where Zuck had to explain how their service is free? If not, read that and apply it to Google. And if you still think Google and /or Facebook are ad companies, then you have to understand what is technology.
Amazon:
1. Shopping: I don't have to say how much it has changed your life. You don't need to bargain. The price is always less.
2. Kindle: best reader out there. You know how competition tried and failed.
Renting server space has been done before. And even then AWS has had it's share of issues and is more like a roach motel than an actual good thing. Easy to get in and insanely hard to get out of.3. AWS: I don't have to tell you what it has done the technology world. Most startups are possible today because of AWS.
4. 2 day shipping: before Amazon, nobody knew you could have such shipping.