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Wow, wtff? I don't understand how people can get so up in arms about Apple fanboys so long as google has fanboys like this.

Are you serious or trolling? I would expect if someone had such an ignorant/naive opinion they would at least be smart enough to not let other people know.

Here's what I see from google:

Search - a product that helps them sell ads

Gmail - a product that helps them sell ads

Google App engine - A platform where they used the hype of MapReduce et al to get people to join and then ramped up pricing drastically after a lot of people had been on the service (a service for which switching away almost certainly means a big rewrite) for years

Android - phone OS to help them sell ads.

I'm not seeing a lot of "make the world better" in there. Unless you mean "for Google executives".



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