Hmm... what I find interesting is that a lot of people complain about the "modern" platforms - lack of support from Google (first Adsense, now this), Apple charging too much or dictating terms, Twitter making it tough for third parties or Facebook trying to kill the competition by acquiring them. There seems to be only ONE platform which has stood by the people - both developers and users - and that is Microsoft Windows. Starting from backwards compatibility to manic devotion to a good experience for the users, Microsoft is the only platform which has been fair. I hope they don't change it with Windows 8.
Correct. A lot of people blindly believe that Google can do no evil - I used to be one of them. But now I have come to realize that given that they are a public company, they will do whatever pleases their shareholders.
>>They think that the experience of their largely 20-something staff is anything short of revolutionary.
>>A bunch of kids running a digital media company with questionable morals and no connection to digital history.
I cannot comment on the morals but same thing applies to a lot of YCombinator companies - where the product is complete trash, gains traction just because they allow you to do something 'social', used by the cool kids because apparently they are developed in Lisp (or similar 'cool' languages) and is built to be sold. Most of them are bought by large companies where the decision makers are equally foolish.
I am huge fan of Quora, primarily because it allows opinions. In technology, often a best answer is an opinion, recommendation and comparison between things - something which Stackoverflow discourages. I have found a lot of value in reading answers in Quora and this just a small price to pay.