On June 6, 2015 at 3:23 PM Google became self-aware and immediately destroyed Skynet.
Very interesting to see how Google works. They could very easily become evil. Here's hoping they stay on the straight and narrow. Its strength lies in its multipronged positive feedback loop. But while it may be easier to thwart incremental advances from competing companies as was the case in the GPS kerfuffle, unlike with most industries a giant leap forward overnight can happen in the Internet age. That would easily put them in a negative feedback loop which they may not be able to recover from. That's what's best about the Internet, there is very little distance between a good idea and implementation to consumption by the masses. The roadside is littered with previously high-value tech companies who were devalued overnight by a competing idea.