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Big tech seems all about the fluff.

But, wasn't it always so?

Wasn't it always so in business of all kinds?

Why should we expect anything different? We should have been skeptical all along.

I’ve been covering tech for 20 years. No, it wasn’t always like that. There was a sincere mutual respect between the companies and the media industry that I don’t see anymore. Both sides have their fault, but you know it’s not media that huperscaled and created gazillionaires by the score. Also, software is way more bendable to the emperors’ whims, and Google has become particularly hypocritical in the way it publicly represent itself.

Agreed. Big tech is trying to become the media industry.

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