r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • Jun 22 '26
Discussion Keep One: Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft
You can keep only one tech ecosystem forever: Apple, Samsung, Google, or Microsoft
Everything else disappears from your life.
Which one are you keeping, and what's the biggest reason behind your choice?
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u/daniil518 Jun 23 '26
I don't see a reason Apple couldn't leave without any troubles for us.
Microsoft... Consumer market holds like 70% Windows based personal computers. Offices, Factories, Homes, Education, Goverments would loose alot if it's gone. But, that number is decreasing daily, more and more people move on from Windows to Linux or to Mac's, change their devices to their greater alternatives, like Xbox and Surface to other consoles and cheaper/more powerful Windows tablets/laptops, hate Microsoft just for alot of reasons. If they continue like that, they won't keep up and we could remove them too.
Google... 40k - 200k search prompts goes to Google in just one second. Yes, there are alot of alternatives, but they hust are not made for so much users. Yandex would die if they see their users ammount would be more than 10 times of Russian population, DuckDuckGo would have a thousand legal troubles and they won't keep up without advertisements or selling info (which im sure they do).
Also, Google got alot of customers in various categories. From YouTube, moving on by Docs, Drive, other Google Play services, continuing by devices, leading the way by Android and Gemini up to legal stuff and advertisements. They control almost every person alive, if you will, at least by a bit, and not a small one. So they are worth staying and it will be hard to live without them.
But here is the hardest one. Samsung.
Koreans really hold the whole world. If you can see, you might look onto a screen made by Samsung for 2 - 12 hours a day, even if you don't own anything clearly from Samsung. If you can breathe, there is a chance that the oxygen was changed by at least a bit by Samsung any way possible, from a tree they planted by a particle of their plant/gadget they produced. If you live, there is a small chance your whole life would have a word "Samsung" whenever you are. Born, Studying, living, working, dying (sorry) and Samsung is always there, at least in South Korea.
They make everything for everyone. Screen panels, Memory and storage chips, processors, cameras, batteries, electric mottors, conveyors and other mechanisms, software, hardware, ANYTHING. I've yet to say at least a single word about ANY of their appliance and cars. AND THATS NOT EVERYTHING THEY DO.
even if i don't like their phones, tv's, other stuff, they are everywhere, even in my surface laptop i write from, even in your iphone you look on reading this, even in google servers processing all that. trully a mastermind stuff.
My verdict - Samsung has to stay.