must-read. tldr, if you think you're not complexely and deeply dependent on google, you are probably very mistakenhttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm …
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rather that I personally, directly depend very little on their services, and indirect dependencies are largely incidental
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because most google services (mail, maps, calendar, cloud) are fungible, really it's just the advertising infrastructure that isn't
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yep. problem is this is what runs almost the entire internet, lol
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sure but "we have to get a new mail provider" is a different problem than "oops the one ad market is gone"
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right! that was pretty much my entire point, was it not
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perhaps I misunderstood, I took your meaning to be that people depend necessarily on the constellation of google services
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whereas I am arguing in most cases the dependence is merely incidental
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yeah my intent was to explain why, bc of the ad market (google's real biz; the rest is all just chaff for antitrust investigators & laymen)…
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