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so we should turn our eyes the other way. really?! it's like saying "everybody does slavery, let's not care"... amazing...if what everybody does is good, great!!! but when it's bad, it should be brought to light in order to stop it.
"ITS JUST POLITICS"
if it's about bad practices being brought to light, i don't care if it's politics or not
"DON'T POLLUTE HACKER NEWS"
don't try to find a "getaway reason" to dismiss an uncomfortable discussion, hackers are not "robots", the more you know about our geopolitical world, the better hacker you are
that being said, good that those bad practices are being shown to the world, it will push Apple and co to do something about it, which in the end will better for everyone
- CURRENTLY, we can safely say Google core product is search and at least CURRENTLY people still needs "google search".
- will it be the same in the FUTURE ? well, you don't have to know the answer, but I'm sure some crazy numbers crunching happen every day at Google and those would signal some trends about "google search" in favor or not.
- Now let's learn from "some failures"...Microsoft didn't want to reinvent itself, they thought their cash cows (windows & office) will always give them a foot ahead, so never wants to let them go and try something totally new without "windows" in them...well u know their history.
- Apple once was "Apple Computer", changed to "Apple Inc", entered new industries, created new ones, planning to enter new ones, never cared about "ideals, fair treatment, transparent", never care about what their users think they want, they controlled all their products like never seen before, they basically do what they want and their customers just take it or leave it...basically in short, 13 billions of profits in a quarter!!!
Now with all above, assume you're smart, can learn quickly, , you're Larry Page and you don't want to become something of the past, what will you do ?