And not just Google, or per the article Amazon and Apple. While I'm long out of the Windows ecosystem (my Year of the Linux Desktop was a decade and a a half ago), it's been noted it has partly changed from a product you use to get your stuff done to a platform to sell you more stuff from Microsoft, plus whatever they might be doing or will do with its build in advertising.
jqpabc123|3 years ago
Of these, Google is by far the worst in my opinion. Mainly because they don't sell any other product. *You* are their primary product.
Amazon is eating an increasing chunk of Google's lunch. They promote advertising in about the only way it really makes sense to me --- on their web site --- where I go to express an interest in buying a specific product.
partly changed from a product you use to get your stuff done to a platform to sell you more stuff from Microsoft
Yes, a predictable response to competition in the form it has taken.