I'm locked into Chrome, Gmail, and Google Drive which save my address list, personal email, and documents. I carefully avoid Google Plus and have removed myself from Facebook. I avoid Microsoft products. You will notice I have a separate "business email" address and provider which I use for the forum. --Kip Murray
Sent from my iPad > On Apr 17, 2014, at 8:02 AM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is. You're bringing to my attention things I haven't included in my > overview. > > A friend of mine who's been in the programming field for decades in the SF > penninsula told me a few years ago that all the bright people he knew at > Google had left because it had ceased to be the kind of place that it had > been. >> On Apr 17, 2014 8:56 AM, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have been trying to understand google. I use their free email >> software and their browser and in the past I have used their ad >> services (when I was working for usatoday), and their search >> offerings. >> >> I've stopped working in the ad business, at least temporarily, because >> I've stopped working for usatoday. I've stopped using their search >> offerings because I did not like a variety of the recent changes to it >> (though I miss image search and sometimes return for that, I mostly >> use duckduckgo now). >> >> Recently, I've started to see a variety of regressions on their >> browser which are encouraging me to abandon it. APL Font support, for >> example, does not work properly on current Chrome. There are other >> issues, but my overall impression is that there are people within >> google who are actively trying to make the company fail. >> >> What's interesting is that this corresponds to public statements >> reflecting the unhappiness of some people there with the decisions of >> managers which they have hired. A perhaps related issue is how >> traditional the company looks when you look at its job offerings and >> how deeply that conflicts with the reputation cultivated by its >> announcements and press releases. >> >> I am still mulling this over. >> >> But, for now, I'm just noting that more and more I'm being driven away >> from google offerings and towards other offerings. It's... >> interesting. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Raul >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
