Google's Turn To Be The Villain

caesar79 writes "The New York Times has an article titled "Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain" (also evil but at least free registration required) According to the article, the "go-getting" attitude of Google is coming across as arrogance to many people in the Valley. More importantly, it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding."

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Re:Damn you Google!

[joeykiller]

Google on the other hand releases specs and APIs to work with the system and they don't care which platform you happen to be running on.

Google don't care which platform I'm running on? Then why is Google Earth, Google Desktop 2 and Google Talk not available on any other platform than Windows?

And to make matters worse: Have you tried using Google Desktop 2 on a Windows computer where Opera is the default browser? The indexing starts but when you try to open a search window, you get a message that your browser is not supported and that Google Desktop probably won't work as expected for you.

I'm not dissing Googles products here, I merely want to point out that Google are not as platform agnostic and idealistic that people here seem to think they are. And why should they? Idealism seldom makes anyone rich.