All of them in different ways, it always depends on your usecase.<p>Here are some criticism lists of the companies:<p>Google: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google</a><p>Apple: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Apple_Inc</a>.<p>Microsoft: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft</a>
Since you didn't put Oracle on the list I must assume you're not serious. But if Oracle was on the list I would vote for Oracle. Otherwise to me, "They're all as good as each other".
These are all great companies that have done a lot to improve the world. I have a hard time calling any of them evil. I think the harshest criticism that they should receive is that (Google and Apple specifically) aggressively optimized their business around labor and tax laws to the point of conflict with the spirit of those laws.
Apple pioneered both the tax evasion schemes and "ecosystem lock-in" anti-competitive practices that Google has tried to replicate (the former successfully, the latter not so much).<p>Apple is also much more actively litigious and commits a lot of human rights violations in the production of its hardware.<p>On the other hand, Google has some really serious and insidious data collection/privacy stuff going on, as well as a general stranglehold on the internet--something that I see as a fundamental conflict of interest. Google is the de facto gatekeeper of the internet and also competes with businesses behind its own gates.<p>I picked Apple, but can see arguments for either one. I don't think Microsoft really compares to either, but would be interested in hearing about why I might be wrong in this regard.
Time heals all wounds.<p>Microsoft is like a senior citizen with a dark criminal past. We look at him and seem somebody who is feeble and harmless, and forget that he's served time for rape and murder.<p>Google is young and fit and strong. Sometimes he's so brash and clueless that he steps on people and they get hurt. We are more concerned about his <i>potential</i> for wrongdoing than for whatever bad things he has actually done.<p>IMO, Microsoft has far more real, tangible crimes and misdeeds in their past than Google has.
Who gets to define evil? They're all bad somehow but in different ways. This just seems like dumb fanboy bait and well below HN's usually higher standards.
Ah, do we so quickly forget the predatory tactics that Microsoft used to kill many startups in the '90s? Viable and game changing startups like RealNetworks, Netscape, etc