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Can we advance some kind of peace treaty? Google's philosophy is to "put users first and the rest will follow" [0] Amazon wants to be the world's most customer centric company. [1]

- [0] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/the-google-wa... - [1] https://www.amazon.jobs/working/working-amazon

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Google's philosophy is to "put users first and the rest will follow" [0] Amazon wants to be the world's most customer centric company. [1]

I would recommend you judge everyone, but particularly corporations, by the effect they have and not what some subset of their mouthpieces claim they are doing.

Well, seemed like you worked for both of them, maybe you should write a couple letters.

For posterity, profile reads:

> Former Google and AWS product manager.

> Google's philosophy is to "put users first and the rest will follow"

We can file that under "Meaningless Feel-Good Corporate Propaganda", right below "Don't be evil".

That's not their philosophy, that's public relations.

The only thing both companies have in common is to grow and extract as much profits as possible.

Maybe it helps them sleep better at night but don't fall for the corporate PR BS that they're changing the world for the better.

No, Google's philosophy is to put Google first, and that's exactly as it should be. Everything else is just marketing to make their users believe they matter.

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