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Google's Love For Small Businesses
bariswheel writes "The Fearless Frog is at it again: In his latest post, Cringely aims to slap some sense into Microsoft, Apple, and IBM altogether. From the article: 'What counts is that for Microsoft the platform is the PC while for Google the platform is the Internet and nobody can hope to control the Internet -- not Microsoft OR Google. Google is making a ton of money from people [small/medium sized businesses] who never were even in business before. This is not only a fundamental change in how advertising is done; it is a fundamental change in how BUSINESS is done.'"
I think he is refering to the closed format of the Apple music platform.
They use a closed format to keep the customers bound to their devices. That's the Microsoft way, and Apple clearly isn't doing anything else here.
I really think that he has a point here: Apple is just as 'evil' as microsoft, they only hide it very well with their attractive style/design.
Depending on how you define "a lot of people" and "small companies", I'd wager you're talking out of your ass and haven't actually looked at any statistics. According to the US Census Bureau, only about 10% of everybody that's employed is employed in firms with less than 10 employees. On the other hand, firms with over 500 employees (I'd consider those to be 'big business') employ about 50% of the workforce.
Do you have anything backing up your argument other than "uhh, there's a lot of small businesses so, like, I'll go ahead and say they must employ a lot of people and I'll hope everyone will believe me because everyone believes things they want to hear regardless of proof"?