I warned about google’s strategy for developers when they encourage use of latest libraries/code linked directly to Goggle’s servers instead of downloading and localizing them on your own server. It is act of creating a huge dependency on google for a little ‘convenience’. I remember how Google’s popularity was spreading by word of mouth only a mere decade ago. They’ve been IT! So much better than Yahoo, great open source supporter etc. A great people’s company. A do no evil company.
It is already a few years already I know this is not true, the entrepreneur google is gone, privacy is gone, do no evil is gone. Funny thing is that as predicted they used the ‘open source’ crowd to gain the hegemony. They just used it to become what they are, and all of the nice fairy tales they used are becoming privacy horror flick. Corporate control freak. They know too much about everyone and they will leverage it in a worse way imaginable. Selling your detailed profiles to the highest bidder.

Good thing is I believe they will be eventually disrupted. Apple is strategically superior company to Google and Google chose to pick up a fight with Apple. Apple managed to put it’s foot in the door of the biggest telecommunications behemoth AT&T and get them over few years in a situation where Apple’s hardware dictates what goes on the phone. Not AT&T. Not a small feat if you consider that just few years back telecommunication companies ruled every aspect of their business. From hardware to connection to content. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in Jobs’ will to take Google out for that Schmidt’s back stab.