Google is the new Microsoft ...
Google is the new Microsoft.
They ignore IETF and other standards and invent their own.
Their IP agreements and other, real legal approaches are scary as fuck.
The "do no evil" motto is not how they conduct their business at all.
All of their stores are closed and you cannot easily move from one system to another.
Eventually they hack in some standards support over many, many years, but they still aren't remotely compliant on many RFCs.
But at least they warn you with "Beta," although so does Yahoo and most everyone else but Microsoft.
Google is assimilating everything.
Microsoft has become IBM and Google has become Microsoft.
But most people won't realize that for a few more years.