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"Shady" take-over of plugins/apps is just a big a suspicious fail as allowing apps to gain access to all contacts on mobile phones.

Google never really cared about user privacy at all.

It is sad in many ways to see what happened to DEC (probably more so than AltaVista). It was such an innovative company back in the 60s and 70s,

They should have merged with a PC make obviously.

but unlike IBM weren't able to reinvent themselves in first the new 80s world of PCs and then later internet.

Ironically IBM did fail to reinvent itself despite inventing the PC and it's cake was stolen from it.

Buy Don't Build 6 years ago

It’s usually a major mistake, that ends up costing a ton of time and money

LOL this is hilarious. Because outsourcing to consulting firms (cough IBM cough) has never resulted in blow-outs and poor delivery.

Buying almost always means being trapped in a snake-oil contract that requires ongoing consulting costs that quickly outweight the costs of the actual software.

This can be avoided by making sure that the key differentiators for your business are in-house.

Oh....so you are saying we should build now?

Blogpsam.