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>> If Microsoft adds a few features and they prove popular, how long precisely will it take Google to mirror or even leapfrog those features?

Is that a bad thing? I don't think so. Competition is the key to progression and innovation, which results in good things for us, the end users.

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While competition drives companies to innovate, in my own opinion, I do not think that is the case for Google...

Google has had the marketplace on lock down for years now and they continue without competition to create and improve their products. Google tends to copy ideas and improve them, or create all new ideas all together and nearly every time they do it they add some innovations that nobody even thought about.

As a public company, they want to not compete, but improve and expand into new markets (growth). So in effect, they're in competition with themselves!

No one is saying that its a bad thing. Just that its a stupid waste of money by Microsoft on a fruitless venture.

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