Android Crushes Competition in Q4 2012 (and overall)

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dallas said:

Squilliam said:
Honestly Google scares me. A company which knows so much about an individual seems dangerous. I think they really need to be split up as a company, they are more dangerous than Microsoft ever was.

So they are dangerous bc they track what websites a user goes to? 

Seriously, MSFT has the ability to track what kinds of files somebody has on their hard drive which can get people into more trouble than tracking a search or whatever.

If that were true, no company on the planet would install Windows on anything important ever.

The problem is that Google's tracking isn't some nebulous potential threat, it's actually at the very core of their business model. Eric Schmidt speaks publicly about how Google wants to know so much about you that it can tell what you're thinking, and make decisions on your behalf. How can anybody not be concerned about that?

Even if you accept that benevolent Google would never abuse their power of having perfect internet surveillance on you, how do you feel about the idea that the US government is one request (Maybe with a warrant, maybe not. Who can tell these days?) away from having all that information on you? How about a malicious hacker? Even the mightiest tech companies have proven prone to leaving the occaisional security hole or falling prey to a social engineering scam.