Read more.Eric Schmidt revokes previous statement that Apple and Facebook were not a 'competitive threat'.
Read more.Eric Schmidt revokes previous statement that Apple and Facebook were not a 'competitive threat'.
Agreed with the Author, having lots of choices isn't always good. Sometimes all you need is for things to work. At the moment I find Google's search to be the best so I'll continue to use it, they can offer me 20 different search engines and I'd still use Google.
As long as Google make customers a priority and continue to support creative thinking I will continue to support them. There is very little negative I have to say with regard to Google and I think we are wasting time and resources on this pointless investigation.
Um, is there any place that Google has a monopoly in? Search - no, there's Bing, Yahoo, Wolfram Alpha, etc. Online docs - no. Phone OS - nope. Mapping - nope, etc, etc.FairSearch.org, a strongly anti-Google consortium, said in a statement: "Google's denial of its own monopoly power is not only laughable, but proof that the Senate and federal, state and international law enforcement agencies must continue to search for the truth about how Google uses its enormous power to advantage itself and hurt competitors trying to reach consumers on the internet."
I've no problem with Google search putting the companies own features first - surely any half-sane person would expect this? Likewise, Google's Android phones come with Google's other services enabled - but there's nothing to stop you substituting something "better" (to you) - e.g. I use ALK's CoPilot instead of Google Maps, have Amazon's service rather than Google Music.
(* Ah, I forgot - surely the US Senate fail that "half-sane person" benchmark test)
Google are powerful because they're in the enviable position of delivering goods and services want, for prices people accept. No one (correctly imho) is questioning Apple's domination of the tablet market, nor that Windows Phone 7 phone owners are forced to use Bing Maps.
Noxvayl (07-11-2011)
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