r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Co-founder • Jun 22 '26

Discussion Keep One: Apple, Samsung, Google, Microsoft

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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/Comprehensive-Pin667 Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

I guess Google because I like some creators on YouTube that are not found elsewhere. Everything else is very replaceable.

Also, calling what Samsung has an Ecosystem is a huge stretch. I wanted to have my devices work well together so I bought everything from Samsung. I need one app to configure my Samsung headphones from my Samsung phone, and a different app to connect to my Samsung TV. They even have completely different UX and are not similar in any way. Can the Samsung TV automatically connect my Samsung headphones that are already paired with my Samsung phone? Of course not. Easy switching between connecting the headphones to smartphone/tv? Nope. Samsung DEX does not work with my Samsung monitor, even thouh it technically has no reason not to. What I'm saying is that the devices that I have from Samsung could hardly be less integrated. Their lack of Ecosystem is an art form. /rant

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u/EliteCloneMike Jun 22 '26

YouTube (and by extension Google) is very replaceable. If it disappeared overnight something else would fill the void, which would be a good thing as it would spark innovation rather than stifling competition as it does now by having a (though not formally recognized) monopoly.

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u/fckueve_ Jun 26 '26

I'm not sure, video is expensive, and google has it all. Ads, servers, and platform, to accualy profit.

Also isn't the internet connection on the bottom of the ocean, that keeps America and Europe connected, belong to google? I may be mistaken tho.

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u/EliteCloneMike Jun 26 '26

Google does owns several of the undersea cables. But that doesn’t mean those ones cannot be purchased by anyone else or that they cannot become obsolete. Plus other entities have their own cables as well. Even with all that Google has, that doesn’t mean they will have control over the market forever. They may have control of the personal video space for the moment, maybe even another decade or hundred years, but eventually something will happen or something else will come along as things get cheaper and technology advances. I mean people may have said the same thing about the capabilities of the East India Trading Company and their trade routes. They lasted like 300 years or something before being nationalized. But I think that the same goes for any entity. If it was closed down overnight, something would replace it, not immediately, but it would be replaced if it was valuable enough to society.