Dude, Google didn't even exist at the time. I don't even know what the hell vivisimo is, but I'm sure it didn't exist either. Altavista was la-creme de la creme back in its day.
I think the main reason why we don't complain about ARM is the fact that we do not buy their products. Hell, we don't even buy products containing their products. They design the chips, but as the article mentions, they don't make them. Intel manufactures ARM processors for use in PDAs, and a lot of people hate intel. We have no reason to hate ARM, they're so far cut off from us consumer-wise it would be ridiculous to do so. We can hate the company that made the camera, we can hate the company that manufactured the chip that's inside the PDA, but why would we hate the company that just designed the chip and sold it off to another company to manufacture it?
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Dude, Google didn't even exist at the time. I don't even know what the hell vivisimo is, but I'm sure it didn't exist either. Altavista was la-creme de la creme back in its day.
I think the main reason why we don't complain about ARM is the fact that we do not buy their products. Hell, we don't even buy products containing their products. They design the chips, but as the article mentions, they don't make them. Intel manufactures ARM processors for use in PDAs, and a lot of people hate intel. We have no reason to hate ARM, they're so far cut off from us consumer-wise it would be ridiculous to do so. We can hate the company that made the camera, we can hate the company that manufactured the chip that's inside the PDA, but why would we hate the company that just designed the chip and sold it off to another company to manufacture it?