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It’s a really popular meme around here to bash Google for killing products, and Google’s behavior here annoys me a lot.

However I’m skeptical whether many consumers care; Google’s favorability ratings are very high:

https://www.cnet.com/news/googles-approval-ratings-best-appl...

This is just the top result from Google, I’ve seen others similar.

I’m in favor of strengthening antitrust (and that applies to a bunch of other industries too, not just tech), but you really have to be careful not to destroy more value than you preserve with this sort of thing.



excuse me, what's the point of "favorability ratings" when there is no competition to compare them to ?


There are popular and well-known competitors to Google for search, maps, free email hosting, web browsers, laptop OSes, phone OSes, blog hosting software, collaborative productivity software, and, if you are on the seller side, paying for ad space.

Outside the US, particularly in China, there are large video hosting services, and within the US, Twitch, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram serve as not-quite-apples-to-apples equivalents for video hosting.


It’s hard to engage with a statement like this. Can you name a Google product that doesn’t have a competitor? I can’t think of any.




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