Are we too lenient on Google and Apple?
gcaprio: Ironically, I just blogged about this, except with FB in the place of Google: http://blog.1530technologies.com/2009/12/where-is-the-disgus...I remain confident that a portion of the success of Google has come from the fact that they came along at the peak of anti-MS fever in the industry.  People were yearning for someone other than MS and jumpped on to Googles wagon and haven't looked back.  Everything Google does is spun as the ultimate good.  Even though if MS launched hotmail and had the phrase 'scanning the users email to tailor ads', people would have erupted.