Comments on: An Open Letter to Companies People Hate

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:17:47 +0000

haha, no. I don’t even remember bashing Microsoft at all. I guess I must be used to that. ha

By: Lydia

Lydia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:34:11 +0000

Did you post this because I was dissing Microsoft earlier? I’ll be nicer from now on!

By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:43:40 +0000

I was so going to click over and say WHAT ABOUT AOL. Glad you excepted it on your own, because holy cow.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:45:06 +0000

Great companies (or once great companies) teach us new ways to be miserable by giving us something we didn’t have before, didn’t know we needed, and couldn’t live without once we got a hold of it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:40:59 +0000

I didn’t say there aren’t good reasons to dislike them. I know why people dislike certain companies because I hear their complaints. I also have complaints against some companies.

Fact remains, however, that these companies have made and probably continue to make our lives better. I know of no American company whose dominance in their market came because they made everyone really angry (government organizations don’t count since they exist by decree, but even then it was most likely done by vote). Market power exists because they did something right.

I’ll end reaffirming that I don’t think hated companies are perfect. They do things to make people hate them. But they also do a lot of things right. And for that I thank them.

By: SpecKK

SpecKK — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:31:36 +0000

I’m pretty sure people hate these companies because of inferior/abusive service, quality and/or prices. They continue to exist because of Market Power and assets. No wonder people hate them. Of course in the absence of markedly better service or national availability they persist with minimal successful competition.