Have you ever wondered if all these PR by Sony and MS are exaggerated to a degree where it becomes difficult to take them seriously anymore? I read this interesting article about PS3 and was surprised. Check this out http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23285
Google's innovation may seem to be making life easier for a few of us right now. We use their products even though we know that certain level of our surfing habits are monitored by Google and this is because they have so far done no apparent evil and we want to trust them.
However, just imagine in the future, given that Google is public and if there's a shareholder coup or certain group of large shareholders would like to cash out, making Google susceptible to a takeover by another search engine, say Yahoo or worse, Microsoft.
What then? There'll be no turning back for any of us then. There should be a policy that if a takeover happens, all past data that Google collected should be destroyed and the whole process should be made transparent.
Finally these guys have decided to put their egos aside and work on a compromise. If they had thought about this in the first place, imagine how much money these corporation would save on wasted R&D.
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Have you ever wondered if all these PR by Sony and MS are exaggerated to a degree where it becomes difficult to take them seriously anymore? I read this interesting article about PS3 and was surprised. Check this out http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23285
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Google's innovation may seem to be making life easier for a few of us right now. We use their products even though we know that certain level of our surfing habits are monitored by Google and this is because they have so far done no apparent evil and we want to trust them. However, just imagine in the future, given that Google is public and if there's a shareholder coup or certain group of large shareholders would like to cash out, making Google susceptible to a takeover by another search engine, say Yahoo or worse, Microsoft. What then? There'll be no turning back for any of us then. There should be a policy that if a takeover happens, all past data that Google collected should be destroyed and the whole process should be made transparent.
Finally these guys have decided to put their egos aside and work on a compromise. If they had thought about this in the first place, imagine how much money these corporation would save on wasted R&D.