2k13 what's the worst enormous tech company?

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voted facebook, prob google

still voting for the 'book. Google and Apple have definitely taken a downward turn in product quality over the last couple years, sure enough. But it's pretty apparent that zuckerberg and crew are out to wreck life for our children and our children's children.

amazon, but they all suck in their own way

^^^

will facebook even be around in 5 years cmon

yes. facebook.gov

'fb doesn't exist' and 'fb is the biggest company in the country' seem like equally reasonable predictions

facebook will eat your family

Actually the real answer to this is "Oracle"

http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzA3LzIxLzAwXzQ2XzM5XzY0Ml9maWxl/d1a78840

oracle has always been the worst, but only recently have they acquired sun and inflicted their terribleness on so much other tech.

kind of a Bilderberg vibe to that photo

lol oracle

Microsoft is still kind of all-time for their business practices over time, though. I'm sure Google and Apple have bought companies just to shelve competing projects, but MS was notorious for buying companies so they could shelve entire ideas that might chip into their marketshare.

oracle's pretty bad. heard from somewhere they played a key role in setting up the tech side of china's security state.

nevermind, that was cisco

if Oracle had set up China's security state the Great Firewall would have a lot of unpatched Java vulnerabilities

Photo needs Kanye.

lol Oracle, and lol Oracle Financials only running on an insecure no-longer-supported version of Java, as owned by, oh... Oracle

this is an issue at work but whichever management committee decided to spend millions on Oracle Financials when the previous system worked better anyway is way more important than anyone who knows what "malware" is, so IT roll out ancient versions of Java over the top of any newer versions on even non-Finance staff machines and we're p. much not even allowed to talk about it

getting increasingly suspicious of Google (this message posted from Chrome, so, y'know, not bothering to do anything about it) but still voting Facebook

Actually the real answer to this is "Oracle"

ilx does not offer the facility for me to indicate in sufficiently large type how otm this is

Haha I was gonna ask where Oracle was in this poll

Mr Veg had to take his dad to a hospital appointment at the "Larry Ellison building" (ugh) He made a point of ranting loudly about Oracle as he walked in

Oracle measurably lessening my quality of work life every single day. Does anyone itt have to wrestle with its hilariously named Agile application?

guys you forgot SAP too

well, and good ol' IBM, too

oracle sap etc arent really in the same category as the companies in this poll, anyway microsoft forever

idk tho microsoft is p fast becoming irrelevant, might be more interesting w/o them, in that case facebook

tho facebook isnt nearly as large as the other 3, so maybe facebook should be thrown out

amazon is just a retailer so maybe not them either

apple prob shouldnt be there cause they just make devices

the answer is google

amazon send me packages in the mail, I can't stay mad at them

google or facebook

amazon is pretty amazing, i would never vote for them

apple too

google i like gmail i google things all the time

facebook i use all the time and despise

microsoft i dont use any of their shit

yeah apple make magic enjoyable devices for wasting my time; and gmail is way better than hotmail i mean come on do you really want hotmail back; and Microsoft idk i use their stuff and it doesn't drive me insane anymore maybe they've worn me down

Facebook give me fun worldwide interconnectedness with my friends while using my data to make cylon clones that will attack us in 10 years mark my words

amazon is just a retailer so maybe not them either

def not true these days

i knew some one was gonna say that and well lets just say i knew you were gonna say that

isn't ilx hosted on amazon

they retail computer cycles who cares

iatee they send me stuff comeon have a heart

amazon is kinda evil for taking ubiquitousness-via-undercutting to the next level but i guess that's old hat these days. google's evil is more ambitious and in its early stages imo, has less to do with being cutthroat and more to do with owning a simulacrum of the entire world.

google makes all their money selling lil text ads, something they got into a decade ago, im sure they aspire toward world domination but its so not gonna happen

eh who knows what pies they have their fingers in rn, really who knows, i guess you could try using their search engine to find out..............

companies generally once they figure out how to make money from one thing arent the best at doing other things, example microsoft w windows/office

i mean sure google has lots of products but are any of them really meaningful, have they been successful doing popular new internet things like say social networking, andriod has been very profitable... for samsung, sick burn

5/14 in and now I think that Amazon is bad for books too

could someone explain this part to me?
'Amazon wanted a payment without having to reveal how many Melville House books were sold on the site'
and then later
Before the impasse, Amazon had represented eight per cent of Melville House’s sales, more than Johnson could afford to lose

?? so, he did know how many melville house books were sold on amazon?

― just sayin, Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I think this might mean that he knows how many books he sold to Amazon but he doesn't know how many books Amazon was then able to sell to customers

The negotiations probably go

"We need you to pay a bigger coöp fee because your books are not selling well on Amazon"

"Well how many Melville House books are you selling"

"We're not gonna tell you"

":-| Are you gonna tell me after I pay the coöp fee"

"Nope"

":-|"

The coup de grâce came last November, when the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced a special partnership to deliver Amazon—and only Amazon—packages on Sundays, with the terms kept under official seal.

This is amazing. Why did I not know about this. I love Amazon, and the UPSS

xp yep that sounds about right

due to the lack of editing (i actually made it through the whole article) i do wonder how much of this is accurate, but at the same time it's not too surprising - they're doing the same kind of stuff Walmart did

11/14

Many more shows are in the pipeline (including a New Yorker project developed by Condé Nast Entertainment).

:O

I like the sleight of hand that Geogre Packer pulls in turning Random Penguin House into the Friend That Turns To You For Solace When His Father Beats Him instead of the Faceless Corporation That Heelgrinds Promising Authors

Mostly it made me fearful for the future of a country where the goal seems to be how to entertain its citizens as efficiently and quickly as possible

Finished

Ultimately the point of view this article was most sympathetic to was the viewpoint of the average reader of the New Yorker

I like to think that the germ of this article was planted when, one night, George Packer sat bolt upright in his bed and scribbled on a copy of the Collected Stories of Lydia Davis "If Knopf collapses who will publish Jenny Offill?? ? ?"

Suspect this

(Few customers realize that the results generated by Amazon’s search engine are partly determined by promotional fees.)

is untrue. cf Tim Lott in the guardian expressing astonishment that supermarkets might use store layout to try and encourage people to buy more stuff. Even the stupid kids know this.

Mostly it made me fearful for the future of a country where the goal seems to be how to entertain its citizens as efficiently and quickly as possible

lol then amazon be sellin wedd stoked 4 dat

just to see the "People Also Bought..."

there was some fancy coffee/tea grinder on amazon recently filled with five star reviews from enthusiasts of neither coffee nor tea.

who grinds tea what the heck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfGuiQM_R9U

lol awesome

what are these "nugs"

I'm guessing some sort of fast food 'nuggets'.

Nugs = attractive girls
Chillin = hanging out
Grindage = food

Google Admits Google+ Was Just A Ploy To Track Your Behavior Online

http://valleywag.gawker.com/startup-flying-dateable-women-to-san-francisco-like-its-1536122926/

this is pretty gross but i don't think comparing it to military rape slavery is particularly appropriate

yep, fight the real enemy -- hyperbole.

you said it!

the video is more amazing than the concept i gotta say.

"it would be great if there were just like a plane full of women, you know"

well, it would!

dateable ages

http://valleywag.gawker.com/which-is-more-terrifying-google-or-facebook-1552264157

it's a tossup

i dunno kinda convincingly argues that facebook thrives on our vanity but is too incompetent to really parlay that into replacing human institutions and customs with regulation by some kind of skynet predecessor a la the goog

eh i like google more but

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

meaty.

i guess all enormous tech company douchebags shop at the same place for accessories

http://i1.nyt.com/images/2014/05/08/business/08founder-web1/08founder-web1-largeHorizontal375.jpg

idk he seems cool

who is that, the ceo of alibaba?

yeah

http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/amazons-big-assist-government

not news but yeah

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/ads-your-fridge-google-says-it-could-happen-n111091

fuck that

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/amazon-escalates-its-battle-against-hachette

i think i first noticed something was up when i was looking at dfw's books

http://www.avclub.com/article/facebook-tinkered-users-feeds-massive-psychology-e-206324?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview%3A1%3ADefault

I think this is kind of cool, actually

That's what they WANT you to think

I am mystified by this result and the margin!

seems about right to me? facebook has always been openly contemptuous and dismissive in its treatment of its users in an almost rumsfeldian way.

http://assets.nybooks.com/media/img/illustrations/Bezos_Jeff-071014_jpg_250x1604_q85.jpg

citizen bezos

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/25/new-amazon-terms-book-industry-report-concessions

Amazon just affirmed they provide facial recognition technology to ICE.

"We think the federal government should have access to the best technology." - Brian Huseman, Amazon VP for Public Policy.

In pursuit of profit, they are willing partners in Trump's deportation machine.

— Brad Lander (@bradlander) December 12, 2018

no, it only feels like this is his second term