Brain S Hall on Google
August 5th, 2011
Interesting take and aligns on something I’ve thought for a while. Google uses it search monopoly to invade other businesses and then whines when they can’t merely get their way. If you buy Google’s “don’t be evil” mantra, you’re fooling yourself.
“And while you’re at it, tell us which patents are not bogus? Any? Do you believe in intellectual property? Property ownership? Or is it all there for Google’s taking?
While Apple and Microsoft and Nokia and Nortel and Blackberry and IBM and many others were actually *innovating* in smartphones and mobile technologies for over a decade you were busy making monopoly profits in a different market. Now you want into the big global smartphone market. And essentially want *all* the intellectual property of these companies to be effectively voided.
So you can continue to use your monopoly profits in a different business to kill off all the companies — all the innovators — and reap monopoly profits in this new business.”