I know a lot of tech companies have awesome products but for me #google stands on top. If I'm allowed to use products of only 1 company, it has to be google. Reasons : 1. I can live without FB and Insta. 2. I can order from Flipkart or something else, so no Amazon 3. Don't need Mac from Apple 4. Netflix's substitute is there 5. Can live without Windows. But Google... What's yours?
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Where's the option for none? Tech giants are a cancer to society. There's lots of search engines and email services out there. I'll be fine without Google.
Others is kinda none. About Google(Alphabet) , it's more than that. Uber, Lyft, Food Delivery service and others directly indirectly relies on Google. But I get your point on cancer.
You need Microsoft or Apple. Anything else is a little too complex for non tech users.
Google Maps is useful, and YouTube would hurt to lose, that's more important to me than any of the other products that Google owns. DuckDuckGo, ProtonMail, etc are okay alternatives to Google equivalents. Amazon is a bit painful, I could live without them but would feel the loss. Easy deliveries and returns and 1 day shipping of groceries with configurable 1-2 hour delivery windows are just too convenient. Besides that, AWS powers a huge fraction of the Internet, if it went down there would be a void. It would be an easy/no-op transition personally if Apple, Netflix, Facebook, or Microsoft disappeared. If you took down all of them you'd go back a few decades.
They are all replaceable. Is this even a question? Are folks really that dependant on any 1 company?
I put a hypothetical situation where one get to choose only one. Yes, everything except natural resources are replaceable.
Wasn't trying to be cocky here. Truly meant that there are so many open source alternatives that moving from one to the other is not an issue at all. Maybe an issue for apple users given how they trap people in their ecosystem.
I am old enough to have lived without most of them.
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