After reading this blog post I am curious about the thought process and strategy twrds the future....?
For any global business China must be the most promising and high potential market of all. Next to India, Brazil and a few others China holds a big promise, maybe even the biggest. So is Google placing a bet here? From what is disclosed it seems that they are afraid of being responsible for potential disaster if data is accessed by people with bad intentions. (Potential imprisonment, political assassination and so forth)
I simply cannot imagine that Google would write off the Chinese market. So could it be that they think that the risk of loosing their brand now by staying (imagine the bad publicity if one man or woman would be seriously fucked) is stupid if you can withdraw now, be the hero and reenter in 1,2,3,4,5 > years and be the king. Sticking to your guns is sometimes better then asking your wife to be a whore in economic challenging times. How do you calculate this? Is 'don't be evil' enough to justify this alleged move? Personally I think we all measure with a double moral, but is this a decision based on morality or hard cash (principles)? The future will tell. Tonight, during a dinner we spoke about Google and the brilliance of how they do things. Also about how well thought trough everything they do is. I don't talk to the Google guys about this and only read about the issues at hand. My personal endeavors with Google gave me a corporate taste and I was mostly impressed by the set up (and of course their business results), so I can only wonder about all of this. I think it's worth while wondering here because China is acting like they haven't moved into the age of freedom and democracy and nobody dares to say something because alotta money can be made. My guess is that they know who accessed / hacked their servers and start a chess game with three parties. Global Google user, Chinese establishment and Google itself. Its a hard game with three players that are all playing a different game. I wonder how it will all play out. If I was Google I would stay and keep improving their security, we all know by now that governments access email and Google is no exception. If I was the Chinese government I would join the global democratic elite, they don't need to hack, just fund a couple of trillions for the next decade. If I was a global Google user I would use the internet less and meet up for revolutionary reform in a bar.
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