Anyway I rest my case as your mission seem to be to tell how good Google is, something I couldn’t care any less about. I don’t understand why you even bothered to reply in the first place, oh, I forgot defending the “service b4 profit” Google.

Let me start with the main issue I was trying to deal with and will get back to the focus of your reply to me, which seem to be heavy on Googles business strategy.

Now who is to tell how long a local innovator should be waited out or not, is it Google who defines our development agenda? Are we really telling ourselves that there is no one inventing locally? Why aren’t we allowed to develop with our own pace, and not spoon-fed by others and chocking on it? What kind of sustainable business is expected from such spoon feeding? Isn’t it what NGOs have been doing in our continent for as long as we can remember? Now anyone who really can’t buy a computer put up a network and learn him/herself develop a service can’t reasonably own a business that will ultimately be based on the knowledge and the finance of the owner. So lets forget those “urging, equipping and supportin local developers to be the next innovators” initiatives that are nothing but an entry in the long list of Googles “nice” activities, and be self empowered instead. There is nothing in it than a certain amount of dedication.

Now you mentioned “Instead of waiting forever for a local innovator, they are taking the lead”.

I would rather put it this way. there are inventors/business developers who really knows and feels the need of the market. Often times this is based on by being locally anchored and at the same time fortunate enough to experience and learn technical trends elsewhere. Being able to identify the gap. But in their effort to bring home those innovations they face various challenges, and scalibility is one of the main which many internet related services hold as premises. There is such lack of infrastructure and its reach that invented/developed solutions never reach the critical mass before they run out of capital and die.

This is my conclusion of many activities I have seen and equating this with that no local innovation is going on is not fair at all. So here is my point, because Google’s pocket seem not to have any limit of depth they can wait for the market to catch up and they will probably do just that if we carry on naively and allow them to take it sector by sector just in the name of “no one is doing it”.

Now going to the next issue of Googles business practices, or as you seem want to hold it as “model of service b4 profit”, hailing Google as the all to go charity house is just a choice one as individual makes and not based on facts. Equating Microsoft with the evil and Google as the opposite is making it too easy and you should read up on certain facts regarding Microsoft and for that matter Google as well. Microsoft made the right moves given the time they were operating and developing their business. They are also now trying to adapt to the new business rules and are really trying, as is evident if you look around.

Google is a profit making entity as any (ex. Microsoft), and the only thing its got going for it currently is nothing but ad revenue and the fact that it provides those services and softwares you counted is not because it wants to do it by the virtue of its existence and for the sake of humanity rather its a matter of maintaining their position in the market where they earn their bottom line, and also to be able to grow their reaches. If they didn’t do that there would be no Google no more, simple. Believing anything else is as I said earlier each ones choice, but not mine.
Their sheer dominance in their sector is to such extent that they indeed afford to go out of their way to do the things they are doing cementing further their dominance, example in my earlier comment suffices.

A growing amount of people everywhere is believing Google and its dominance is up for scrutiny, and believe me these opinion is shared widely from legislators to die hard google fans (defined as mere users currently satisfied with various applications google is coming with but concerned about the extent, width and depth of their reach, to which I belong).

Agree or disagree thats my opinion and I will not bulge just because you resort to belittling remarks about me, and my opinion is not less or more valid because I use products from Google.