That's your take from the trenches. The filter layer above isn't tuned to that message. It's tuned to a message from bean counters/upper management.
It's basically drug dealing, where the drug is a dopamine hit. It's OK in this case, because the "free market" supports it. Nevermind teams of psychologists helped those users develop their "support". They're freely…
Having a monopoly and abusing it are two different things. MS was in a position to abuse it because no one could switch to OSX or Linux without huge expense; hard to run win32 apps. Google is waaaay different.…
Microsoft had a monopoly at a lower level in the stack. When all the software you rely on is win32, it's hard to move to Linux or OSX. People can dump Chrome tomorrow for at least 4 fully-featured alternatives -…
That's your take from the trenches. The filter layer above isn't tuned to that message. It's tuned to a message from bean counters/upper management.
It's basically drug dealing, where the drug is a dopamine hit. It's OK in this case, because the "free market" supports it. Nevermind teams of psychologists helped those users develop their "support". They're freely…
Having a monopoly and abusing it are two different things. MS was in a position to abuse it because no one could switch to OSX or Linux without huge expense; hard to run win32 apps. Google is waaaay different.…
Microsoft had a monopoly at a lower level in the stack. When all the software you rely on is win32, it's hard to move to Linux or OSX. People can dump Chrome tomorrow for at least 4 fully-featured alternatives -…