What’s actually is worse that people do not care and continue using Google, being arbitrarily dependent on them.
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ITeeTechMonkey@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Google is removing the VPN and free shipping (which was only available on some photo orders) to make way for more “in demand features”?
I could understand if this was coming from a smaller company with more limited resources and staff, but that’s not Google by any means.
They really don’t care about the poor reputation the general public has of them regarding shutting down services on a whim.
What’s worse though is they don’t seem to realize that, with the exception of Android and maybe Google Docs, their services/products are easily replaced by competitor offerings.
In my opinion it’s a good thing if Google gets knocked of their high horse and allow competition to flourish in their place.
Eheran@lemmy.world 7 months ago
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 7 months ago
Google docs is only good for collaboration. Otherwise its insane that MS Office is still superior to it.
Hell, Libreoffice is admittedly slightly behind MS for features, and its still superior to Google Docs.
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The big advantage of google docs is that it is free and good enough. Most people don’t need advanced formatting options, font size and a few choices are sufficient.
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 7 months ago
And Libreoffice does that better
And, you know, is actually free
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sure but I can’t run libreoffice on my iPad, and that’s a deciding factor for more people than the licensing.