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It's interesting to see Google is stepping on lots people's toes: Apple (phone), Microsoft (search/apps/mail), Facebook & Twitter (Buzz), Amazon (AppEngine), Yahoo (the fake ad deal). Who else?

Sit back and pass the popcorn.

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Don't forget the most important toes of all: China.

Not really? Apple seems perfectly happy to let Chinese slave children build their phones.

really?

Wasn't the case that they audited their suppliers and remedied the issue of children working for them.

Apple are gaining lots of black marks in my book - but I think they don't deserve the crap they've taken from the kids working issue.

what I'm worried the most about is that while the big boys play, MSFT will sit and wait and then when everyone is weak enough the Borg will strike back and Evil Empire will reemerge.

That's what I thought about OS/2 :)

Or instead it could be a case of warring Greek states growing strong enough that they were able to take on Persia. Asimov had a great sci-fi short story based on this premise called "In a good cause"

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