Why do we dislike market leaders?

The main reason is because of the monopoly of the companies in their niche. We use their products or services whether we like it or not because of monopoly. Some say they don't deliver what they promise. Many feel their products are overpriced but assuming most of us rarely buy original product that doesn't seem a logical issue. Many claim their products are a mix of what others have done. However, what is the wrong in improving upon something that the others have done? I don't think any software we see today is completely pure. It is the nature of Engineering, the only difference is that some people know how to make money doing it.

Is this seriously your opinion?

That is, if you can legally get away with it, do it?

Is that the core spirit of capitalism?

Sure, no matter how good a service or company is, there is always some that are disgruntled.

But jealousy?

Hmmm, lets see for starters..,

BP

Goldman/Sachs

Mortgage Companies

Those that shorted the Euro in Greece

People running from AT& T's phone service so fast, that they have upped their early cancellation fee/penalty

Other corporate monopolies, I guess monopolies are healthy for liberty and capitalism,

I'm sure there are others..., yeah, it must be jealousy..,

I agree - it is NOT jealousy.

#1 the monopoly thing (we got it whether we like it or not) and have no choice but to pay inflated prices, settle for sub-par service, etc.

#2 the arrogant thing when they get 'too big to fail' (ha-ha no such thing) - the whole attitude changes when they make it to the top.

#3 spamminess - i can hate a perfectly good, non-monopolistic, non-arrogant entity because i get sick to death of seeing their stupid ads (Geico Gecko is exempt) - nobody likes to have something shoved down their throat.

#4 invaded and occupied against our will - when you got one on every corner you get sick of them.

Particularly when they have put all the little guys out of business - example - Home Depot - there isn't one hardware store in this town besides them - they either bought out or bankrupted every other one. (small town)

p.s. On #1 - Google - what do you think of them now:

a. banned 10's of thousands of affiliate marketers from Adwords for no reason
b. have a new, very expensive SEO service (like about $20k a month) - now tell me how 'children of a lesser God' will be able to compete with their customers.

This is clearly a conflict of interest where they will be sure to give those people with money priority rankings, etc.

Can't wait for the anti-trust hearings.

Some people just wouldn't be happy unless they had something to complain about. (Heh.)

Generally speaking, and from what I understand, "Successful People" are more positive than the average person.

I just think that the perspective is distorted for the larger companies. Because when someone is happy w/ a product or company you don't hear anything. The only time you hear from people is when there's a complaint to be made. You hear all of these complaints and assume that the company or product must suck. But what you don't realize is that the dozens and dozens of people you hear complaining, may be an extremely small fraction of the over-all customer base.

It's like on eBay. If you look at a power-seller's feedback score and see that they've had 20 negative feedbacks in the last month, you may assume that they're a crappy seller. However that could be just 20 out of the 20,000 transactions they've done that month. (By the way I think that this is why eBay is moving to a star rating system)

That was a very interesting post. Perhaps the larger they are, the higher the expectation and no perceived error is overlooked.

I think there is wrath against large corporations because they are 100% about money and give a crap about us. They will poison us for an extra dime, put people out of work by the groves, cheat their own employees, and do anything else they please for their profits no matter who they hurt. People are sick of being slaves. They are tired of paying and not being able to get out when they don't like the service, tired of having rights violated for the benefit of the few.

As far as online "gurus" - when you say Microsoft, you are talking about a corporation which is doing everything possible to make it impossible for those online to NOT use microsoft.

When you are talking about single people (yes I do realize they have a staff by the time they get well known), such as Dr. Mani or Jo Mo -- It would appear to be mostly jealousy. They have made it big and give products that can help make others big, too, if used correctly -- yet others don't make it. While that is their own fault most of the time, they have to project the failure to something else so they can get their comfy zzz's at night knowing their failure is someone else's selfishness instead of their laziness or lack of understanding.

Part of it is a pure numbers game. Paypal has over 100 million users. If just 1% are dissatisfied, that's over 1,000,000 angry people. This also works in reverse, popular programs will get more "recommendations", even if they aren't the best choice, simple because more people use them.

Another part I think Wilt Chamberlain said best when he called his autobiography "Nobody Roots for Goliath". It seems to be natural to want to root for the underdog.

I think because whether it is true or not large companies tend to appear very disconnected from their customers. You become a number to them (or atleast that is the perception).

Paypal sucks

PAYPAL was a johnny come lately, and certainly NOT the leader or only one. It was merely MAYBE the first third party ONLY payment processor that was easy to link through via just HTML.

But people hate it because of claims of incompetence, etc...

Aweber sucks

I'm not even sure if THEY were the first. Apparently some don't like them because they try to protect everyone, and people don't seem to understand WHY!

ClickBank sucks

Ok, Clickbank HAS done some IDIOTIC things with changing linking methods, cookies, and allocation methods. STUPID! Otherwise? WHY is anyone upset?

Go Daddy sucks

Go daddy TECHNICALLY STILL doesn't do what they are known for. They certainly weren't first. AGAIN, incompetence, and stupidity, or yeah, ARROGANCE!!

Microsoft sucks

How about the fact that microsoft has set back computing almost WHAT, 30 years at this point? LITERALLY! My latest computers seem NO more faster really, than older ones. I just got a new computer with a clock that is about 1/3rd the speed of my last one, HALF the memory, and the processor is 1/4-1/2 as efficient. Got that!?!?!? 1/3*1/2, so it should be running at 1/6th the speed, right? Well, it runs FASTER! Gee, do you think it is because it is running XP instead of vista!?!?!?

OH YEAH, LOTS of crashes! APPLE started when M/S did, and people seem to LOVE apple! Apple started before IBM, as far as micros are concerned!

Wal-Mart sucks

Well, they cut costs, and rape cities, so I guess THAT is understandable. The megalo mart in king of the hill is probably representative of walmart.

Google sucks

Well, the search on non search engine products, and the cavalier distribution of relatively private data is bad.


Insert well-known gurus name here sucks,

Most DO! HECK, the fact that they call themselves GURUS tells you something!

BTW outside of walmart and microsoft, you would never get a legitimate antitrust ruling against those actually named above.

paypal, clickbank, godaddy, and google could conceivably get in trouble for other things.

Many "gurus" already HAVE gotten in trouble! I'm not aware of anything aweber ever did that was bad, etc....

BTW if GOOGLE DOES have an SEO company, it is technically ILLEGAL! M/S was told that they can NOT make the O/S and software for it. Supposedly, M/S has to have ONE division create the O/S, release the specs to everyone, and THEN have ANOTHER division use THOSE specs and ONLY those specs to develop software. That is based on an old borland suit that happened about the time of the antitrust legislation. Borlands argument was that THEY had special hooks and knowledge to hit the market sooner with better software with more features.

Here is one reference to a partial impact from the governments decision:

http://www.mttlr.org/volfourteen/page&childers.pdf

Steve