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According to law if there is no such clause the developer may claim ownership of code he wrote even if he was employed. The contract protects the company from that but also applies to any code written by employees generally (not a nice thing but prevalent).
Can't beat Facebook at social network but at everything else Google can use similar features to solidify their market.
A great example would be a greedy algorithm. It works for some problems but doesn't for some others. Take a simple enough problem and you get optimal solution. Push the algorithm to its limits and you don't even get a good solution. You don't have to understand how the best algorithms for a task work to come up with a greedy algorithm.
Just a week ago I read about traffic warnings personalised by face recognition. Now this. Soon China might become Ingsoc with Minlove and Double think and what not.
First Winnie the Pooh now Justin Bieber.
Unless remacs gives a clear advantage over emacs in terms of performance while still retaining compatibility people won't switch easily. Even then the switch should be quick and painless. (Neovim had those and so some people jumped ship).