mine is BlackRock if you consider that an tech company if not then my second is meta facebook
All of FAANG
Now it’s MAANG
Actually MAANA since Google is now Alphabet.
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its MAANAON since oracle and nextstar media group
How about MANGA
Most comments about GAFAM, they are really hostile and bad for overall tech.
But take a look at China’s Tencent, that’s what those big tech companies would have been if not regulations. For example Tencent was literally blocking their chat app QQ if it detect on a computer an antvirus that was competion to their own antivirus.
it shouldn’t be just GAFAM it should include every evil company
One specifically bad thing about BlackRock is them buying up huge swaths of single family homes which increases prices and makes it more difficult for anyone to own property. Then they rent them out to people after they were not capable of getting a mortgage.
But BlackRock is absolutely enormous so that is just a drop in the bucket of what they do.
They just own everything. Literally everything.
They are an asset management company not a tech company though.
Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Microsoft, OpenAI are top of my list simply due to being aware of them.
though I’m sure most large tech corps have blood on their hands in some way or another, doing “well” under capitalism demands exploitation.
Id argue Blackrock is a finance company that uses tech rather than being a tech company. But the differences these days are pretty negligible. In my mind a tech company provides tech to end users (google fb etc). Maybe a fintech? But even then in my mind thats more like a start up “modern tech” bank rather than a classical bank.
Meta, XFormerlyKnownAsTwitter, Google are all pretty bad for society these days
Apple. Not the most evil, for certain, but they have the highest percentage of high level business choices that piss me off. Just so antithetical to my philosophy and consumer preferences. All closed, all hyper controlled, low customization, anti-repairable.
Do it their way or go fuck yourself. Something break? Fuck you, it’s your fault, buy another one. Want to play games on their very capable hardware? Grow up, no compatibility. Want to make their OS work on other machines? How dare you. Thief.
I would say Apple isn’t as severe as something like Meta or “X” but the amount of influence apple has over the industry is insane. There’s a reason why so many laptops are losing ports “because the MacBook has it” or why smartphones are stagnating and when they “innovate” they’re just removing more features like the SD card reader all simply because “Apple did it”. Hell, Windows has been trying to be like Mac OS for years from its flat minimal design to its oversimplification of its design to trying to make their own “eco system”. Apple’s influence can even extend beyond tech with their flat minimalist, corporate design being applied to every industry and building and design ever to be conceived in 2023. Everyone is trying to be Apple from Tech companies to fast food joints. Truly if we measure their influence and the power they carry moving entire industries to do various things. They are one of the most powerful company in silicon valley. Everything we hate about modern tech and how restrictive it is can be sourced all the way back to Apple.
This is all very true within the US and in regards to companies that do a lot of business within the US. Globally though, they’re not nearly as big or influential.
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I have a brand new Apple product with both a headphone jack and an SD card reader.
To be fair it only has HDMI and not a VGA connector, and there’s no floppy disk drive or serial port.
Everyone loves to hate.
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For me it’s a tie between Oracle, Atlassian, and Microsoft.
All three of them have built their business models around intentional poor design = money for extra services. They could make their software easier and more functional, but they intentionally don’t so because it would hurt their profits. That kind of greed is inexcusable to me.
Confluence is one of the shittiest things I have ever had to work on.
It especially sucks if your company migrated from a working but “unsupported” wiki system to Confluence, importing all the pages and breaking all the links in the process.
and it’s too slow
I’d add SAP to this list
SAP is horrendous. Never want to touch that software again.
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Nobody mentioned Adobe yet. They’re absolutely the worst. They offer creative products behind a 70$ / month paywall and they hold a monopoly in their field. Only need their software sporadically? Sorry, no plan for you.
They haven’t significantly updated some of their software in like 20 years. I currently have the displeasure of using After Effects again and apart from not even supporting system dark mode on macOS or even fullscreen mode, there are all kinds of weird small bugs that you just get used to when using the software for a while.
Fuck Adobe.
Have you heard of Oracle? It’s the database version of Adobe, but maybe worse. They seem to deploy more lawyers than technical staff.
Remember kids. It is always morally correct to pirate adobe products.
I’m a graphic designer and honestly, been thinking long and hard about switching to Affinity. Affinity Designer even seems like it would streamline most of my workflow.
I use Affinity sometimes, but PS, AI, & AE rule the roost because they are just better at most tasks.
PSSm: Apple Motion flies way below the radar and can do a LOT of things better/more elegantly than AE.
I delivered two seasons worth of graphics for a network show, and 85-90% was done completely in Motion.
I really like Affinity, but I’m using it casually for my photography hobby
Affinity designer is a great tool if you are looking to use it. I can’t say for the newer versions due to reasons, but some 4 years ago that I tried it, it absolutely blew me away. Easy to use, lots of advanced features, stable, great pricing. And they got a v2 as well, unfortunately v1 customers will need to rebut though at a discounted price.
I switched to Affinity! It’s great. Not all of the features are there but most of them. It’s also much less buggy and the interface is way better thought out.
They don’t make a replacement for After Effects though, that’s why I’m stuck with it for one project.
Blender
That’s my experience. Less features (like still no object blending in designer), but much faster and smoother over all. Admittedly I haven’t used an Adobe product in a few years, but when I first switched I was amazed at how much more performant the affinity suite was.
Which Adobe product doesn’t have a good FOSS replacement?
The suite itself. Being able to drop photoshop files into after effects and after effects files into premiere timelines while being able to go back and edit any piece is huge for efficiency.
DreamWeaver.
And thank god for it, too.
They’re also the company who mainstreamed the software subscription model.
It used to be that only services required subscriptions. Applications would be a one time payment. But, Adobe converted to the subscription model and because they hold a monopoly over the design space, people/companies had no choice but to go along. Once they were successful, every business in the world decided that they also wanted that sweet monthly payment and now software licensing sucks.
I refuse to even pirate Adobe products on principle.
TL;DR Fuck Adobe, use open source.
Nestle, Adobe, Intuit, most health insurance/pharma, T-Mobile is getting there under Sievert
olny adobe is a tech company
I can’t read, Intuit might count too though
I’d absolutely count Intuit with how TurboTax has basically captured the market.
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If we’re limited to just tech companies, it’s gotta be Amazon. Their unfair business practices and horrible work conditions make them one of the most deplorable companies on the planet
i don’t think there’s one worst one, they’re all bad
Meta Google/YouTube Microsoft Discord Amazon Duo Security Tiktok Spotify most paid streaming services Patreon, Onlyfans, etc.
I haven’t read the last couple of updates, but when I did read their privacy policy at one point, it said they hold the rights to do whatever they wanted with all your message history or sell them. Not good imo.
Always had a hard time with keeping my account or opening a new one, as they constantly demand you (or at least me, but I’ve read about a couple other users with the same experience) to hand over your phone number, which they will use for SMS based verification before you can log in.
It’s hard to find Voip numbers that work. If you try hard enough, they may even block your account irreversibly.
Maybe they are doing it to me because in my browser I block the web requests that are targeted at their tracking focused endpoint, which by the way was somewhat scummily renamed some time ago to “science”, so that popular inferior adblockers don’t block them.
Other than that, I’ve heard that r/discord is modded by their employees, who silence anyone (with deletion of post and blocking the user from the sub) who complains about these and similar things.
