With sales of $137 billion, a profit of $30.7 billion and a market value of $ 863.2 billion, Alphabet Inc. ranks 17th among the world's largest companies.

Yet it cannot even make the most essential thing work. October 2025 saw one of the lowest points in the company's history, with the following bug occurring on millions of users' computers across the world.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/google-doesnt-even-know-how-make-software-anymore-british-software-xdpxe/

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🤔 What's really behind the call to "learn to build on the ideas of others" broadcasted by Microsoft? We should be cautious, especially given its past history of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy it's used for dominance in the past.

➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inconvenient-truth-behind-convenience-using-others-ideas-xegze/

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