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Don’t Be Evil

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36 pointsjamesbowman10 comments

The giant banner at the top crosses out "Don't be evil" and replaces it with "Do the right thing".

The author makes an error before even writing a single word, because "Do the right thing" became the mantra of Alphabet, not Google. Google's motto is still, and always has been Don't be evil.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/code-of-conduct.html

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

The OP has added a correction at the bottom of his Article.

Come to the darkside of FOSS, where apple, google, and amazon only have as much control as you let them. GNU+Linux, GPLed software, root on your devices. When the surveillance engine enables the totalitarian takeover, hackers will be the only ones free. You "hackers" have gotten too lazy (especially looking at you Apple users). HN abounds with businesspeople pretending to be hackers instead of the other way around.

Also, why tf was this flagged?

"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -- Voltaire

That was quite interesting. Why was it flagged?

"Apple is secretly working on her own Siri-based Echo competitor: Homepod." … this is not a secret.

I sure hope that won't be the public name. I fell asleep halfway through reading it.

"Homepod, order me a cake!"

Yeah, that sounds so sexy. Not.

You could go: "Homie, hook a hacka up". As a now-adult-used-to-wear-baggy-pants I'd identify with the target market.

"the four" don't control as much of the internet as this article gives them credit for.

Google has lots of competition: There are many search engines. There are many email providers. YouTube is probably their one service that totally dominates their rivals, although other video sites do exist.

Android phones compete with apple phones, and windows/Linux compete with apples other products.

Other social media sites exist and compete with Facebook, including Twitter, Snapchat, and LinkedIn.

Amazon also has competitors, and Walmart.com is every bit as good as Amazon, but has the option for in store pickup.

It seems this article is being a bit hyperbolic

Are you sure? Of course, there are many search engines, but Google is an actual verb, people Google as their first reaction to a lot of things, I'll concede they have a lot of competition in other fields, but searching web content and Googling are close to synonyms by now.

Facebook also has competition in social media world, but Snapchat is suffering from Facebook's copycat strategy, Linkedin does not serve the same purpose, Twitter has been going down despite having every media outlet blasting Twitter handles. Facebook has 2B users and they are blocked in China. If that is not market dominance I don't know what that is.

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