Is Google the New Microsoft? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 6, 2012 @04:04AM from the Imitation-is-the-best-form-of-flattery dept.

ericjones12398 writes "Google's come up with its solution for Dropbox: If you can't buy 'em, copy 'em. The search engine and online advertising giant replaced its popular Google Docs service with Google Drive, a cloud computing storage service designed to directly compete with start up Dropbox. This raises the question, has Google become the new Microsoft? Us ancient folk who remember the 1990s and the Microsoft anti-trust trial can certainly notice some parallels. A big, dare we say monolithic, company doesn't bother innovating on its own. It just waits for other companies to innovate, makes some changes for legally significant distinctions and enters into competition with the innovator. Sound familiar?

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Re:Really, Slashdot? by readandburn · 2012-05-06 04:10 · Score: 5, Funny

The better snarky post would have been: "Is Slashdot the new Mashable?"
Have we forgotten the order? by Voyager529 · 2012-05-06 04:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Google is the new Apple.
Apple is the new Microsoft.
Microsoft is the new IBM.
IBM is the new Xerox.
Re:Yes by Chrisq · 2012-05-06 04:26 · Score: 5, Funny

2002 I stopped using Microsoft. 2012 I stopped using Google.
2022 stopped using porn, started using viagra.