https://www.geany.org/

Do you care to share which search engine is superior to Google search then?

I suppose the other examples are subjective, but the numbers don't lie; more people seem to use them than not. I used Firefox since 0.6 days but finally switched to Chrome about a year and half before Quantum came out. Not bothering to switch back since I don't care for the new look of FF and there's no compelling reason to do so at this point - too little, too late.

What's better than Google Maps that's "free"?

I prefer Android OS in general, and the Google Pixel line specifically. I find the flexibility of what I can do with the device "superior" to the alternatives. The other major device is fine I'm sure; however, I've never owned one, so I'm basing that on its popularity. Perhaps they are a monopoly.

As for trackers & ads, I run with uBlock Origin and I use PIA and Incognito mode when I want to "go dark".

Bottom line is no one is forced to use Google products and it's not a monopoly.

No one is forced to use Google Search, use Google Chrome, buy an Android phone, use Google Maps, or use any other Google service; you are free to use Microsoft Bing, the Firefox browser, an iPhone or a Garmin GPS.

Google services don't ship on Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, or the various flavors of Linux. People are "forced" to use Google products because they are superior - period.

This talk of Google being a "Monopoly" is B.S., plain and simple!

Talk about picking winners & losers. What happened to the "free market" working its magic?

See Colossus: The Forbin Project

Yeah, that's nice and all, but I hope they fix Google Play Music to use an HTML5 player before kicking Flash to the curb.

Transmission

Check out, "Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software".

Talk about a bad day at the office. As an IT professional, I feel for the guy.

http://johnvansickle.com/ffmpe...

If I subscribed to DirecTV or U-verse TV will you push the Marshmallow OTA to my Nexus 6? It's only been 98 days so far!

Factory reset you phone and stop side-loading shady/pirated apps and you'll be fine. I've never had an issue with malware on Android and I been using it for over five years now (N6).

Ditto for DOpus.

I didn't realize I'd been doing it wrong all these years.

I remap my CapsLock key to be a Control key; and RShift-CapsLock to invoke the original caps-lock function.