There would be some initial shock but we would quickly get over it. Personally, I would be delighted if Google were to do a complete epic fail and close down.
I’d prefer not to leave Apple with pretty much no competition in mobile OS if Android were to fail, unless we’re just referring to Google the search engine, and not the parent company Alphabet.
I think you’re under estimating the importance of Google on the internet. Sure if search were to fail we’d find a way, in a probably worse off over all internet.
Google also provides gdocs. The only good competitor to Microsoft office. Tons of businesses are extremely reliant on gdocs. It’s cloud base infra would make it’s loss more painful than the loss of ms office. We’d also lose drive, which is heavily integrated into a lot of web apps.
We’d lose their support on android. While android would survive it would he a detriment to the software. Especially future features. As well as it’s tight integration with non phone devices.
Google is a major funder of a long list of FOSS applications. It would seriously damage FOSS software.
Docs is the easiest thing to replace, honestly. It’s good, but there are so many alternatives. Sheets, however, as a connected collaborative spreadsheet is harder to replace. Excel is terrible online and tools like Airtable are too cooked for most people.
Google reaps a more than simply healthy profit compared to what it outlays to help open source projects. Alphabet is not doing this out of altruism so it’s definitely profit motivated. Google’s cash outlay to benefit FOSS is mere peanuts when compared to the lucrative value it gets in return.
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There would be some initial shock but we would quickly get over it. Personally, I would be delighted if Google were to do a complete epic fail and close down.
I’d prefer not to leave Apple with pretty much no competition in mobile OS if Android were to fail, unless we’re just referring to Google the search engine, and not the parent company Alphabet.
I dream of a world that again exists without big tech, but you know, it’s a dream.
Yes, I feel you on that one!
I think you’re under estimating the importance of Google on the internet. Sure if search were to fail we’d find a way, in a probably worse off over all internet.
Google also provides gdocs. The only good competitor to Microsoft office. Tons of businesses are extremely reliant on gdocs. It’s cloud base infra would make it’s loss more painful than the loss of ms office. We’d also lose drive, which is heavily integrated into a lot of web apps.
We’d lose their support on android. While android would survive it would he a detriment to the software. Especially future features. As well as it’s tight integration with non phone devices.
Google is a major funder of a long list of FOSS applications. It would seriously damage FOSS software.
Google runs YouTube.
Docs is the easiest thing to replace, honestly. It’s good, but there are so many alternatives. Sheets, however, as a connected collaborative spreadsheet is harder to replace. Excel is terrible online and tools like Airtable are too cooked for most people.
Google reaps a more than simply healthy profit compared to what it outlays to help open source projects. Alphabet is not doing this out of altruism so it’s definitely profit motivated. Google’s cash outlay to benefit FOSS is mere peanuts when compared to the lucrative value it gets in return.