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title: It's Wrong to Compare Tech Companies
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date: 2015-10-23
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Alright, everyone calm down, it's not always true but read on to see my
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reasoning.
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Recently I was talking to my friend and fellow web developer [Sam
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Bunting](http://sambunting.biz/). We set on to the topic of Google being evil after me asking why he chose a Windows Phone over something like an Android phone or an iPhone. His reasoning was simply that
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> Because in all honesty, I like Microsoft and dislike Google, The
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> phones for a fairly powerful spec is quite cheap compared to things
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> like iPhones, I really like flat design and personalisation of my
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> stuff (Which I can do really easily on Windows Phones) and it is fast,
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> not just out of the box, but *\[after a lot of use\]* it appears to
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> have not lost any performance at all.
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He pointed out that he feels google is an 'evil company', and that they get everything they -- and what they don't get they bully out of
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existence. We went on to compare Google vs. Microsoft (a friendly
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sparring match if you will) and I left with the conclusion that we
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really should not be comparing those two companies -- just like how we shouldn't compare apple to oranges.
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Tech companies try to innovate (at least, most of them). They find new
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ways to do things and earn some revenue off that. They do things the way
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they want to. The way they see is the 'right way'. It's not really fair
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to compare Android to Windows Phone because they're aiming for two
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different things. Android is going for customizability and aiming for
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all markets, whereas Windows Phone seems to be aiming more for the
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low-to-medium end business-oriented smartphones for people who want to
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get stuff done and don't care about changing their launcher or flashing
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custom ROMs. It's like that for iOS too. iOS is more focused on Apple's
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closed garden, and people who invest in their (rather pricey compared to
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the competition) technology want to be enclosed in Apple's walled garden
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of safety, where maybe the ability to change their icons isn't there but
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the safety and speed (although with iOS 9 that's debatable) are present.
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Obviously, some companies could be easy to compare, like Intel and AMD,
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or Nvidia and AMD, but that's because they're in the same sort of
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business -- they make processors and graphics cards for PCs, among
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other endeavours. But for the most part I don't think it's fair to
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compare Microsoft vs. Google vs. Apple. They're all going their own
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directions.
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