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> Big Tech companies dominate, not because they’re better, but because they have the first mover’s advantage

Uuuh says who? I think they dominate because they are in fact better for business for one reason or another.



Being good at other things can have them generate enough money to blow trying to be good at a $NewThing that smol players only doing $OneThing can't hope to match.


Google drive is awful, completely atrocious to navigate and reason about.


People aren't using Google Drive for the Drive per se or the crappy online file system UI, they're there for the apps: Docs & Sheets are the killer apps: good enough as a word processor & spreadsheet combo for any basic tasks, real-time collaboration that is still first-class and maybe unmatched (or at least the closest matches I can think of are still American vendors), and plenty of people are educated in their use, especially anybody who went to school any time after 2008. Also you know, Gmail: still a great webmail service, and part of Google Workspace too.


Cool but GCP or AWS is overall running circles around OVHCloud.

GSuite and O365 are better for businesses than uhhh… what is the european equivalent even? Tutanota and protonmail + libreoffice?


I store a lot of things in Google Drive, works just fine for that purpose.




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