Re:The war between Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
by yflu on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:50PM
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Suggesting Facebook and Google and Amazon as serious replacements for Facebook and Google and Amazon really drives the point home.
Re:The war between Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
by mattferderer on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:07PM
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Nicely said. I did do that for 1.5 out of the 4. While I didn't state it well, my argument was meant to be for replacing one or two of them, not all of them.
Voice is probably the hardest one to replace all 4 of them on.
For Facebook's network effects, I mentioned Twitter which is not one of the four. I did mention that my main use I've replaced with Google Photos. I did that because it's free & great. If I hated Google, I could use several paid services that offer similar benefits. Snapchat is becoming more popular with the older people I know. Instagram was great before getting bought out by Facebook so we can't count them now.
I think maybe one point that needs to be made, is if you want a "free service" you must be willing to let your data be sold. That is the big problem that many people have with a lot of the above free services.
Google Drive: Dropbox, Box, OneDrive....
Google Voice: Depends what you're using it to do. Amazon & Microsoft have apps you can use that do similar tasks. Whichever you use does require access to a lot of personal data to be useful though, no matter what company you pick.
Amazon: Target, Walmart, Jet, etc... Lots of competition here. Amazon's online experience is typically better but their is plenty of competition & they often have cheaper prices. FYI in case any Target person reads this. Your site is terrible & full of bugs.