In a new survey conducted by SurveyMonkey and shared by Recode, 11 percent of respondents said that they believe Apple has the most positive impact on society today. Apple came in third place, however, falling in line behind Google at 15 percent and Amazon in the top spot at 20 percent.

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Survey respondents were given the option of choosing between a number of technology companies between April 8-9, and it totaled 2,772 adults based in the United States. When asked which company they believe has the most positive impact on society, 20 percent elected to choose "none of the above."

Despite the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal, 10 percent of respondents chose Facebook as having the most positive impact today. Microsoft rounded out the top 5 slots at 7 percent, followed by Tesla at 6 percent, Uber at 3 percent, Netflix at 2 percent, and a list of companies at 1 percent.

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The survey also dived into the CEOs of the companies and asked respondents which leaders had the greatest impact on people's daily lives. Amazon came in first place again, with 22 percent saying CEO Jeff Bezos and his decisions impact them in some way each day. Google's Sundar Pichai came in second at 18 percent, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was third at 17 percent.

Amazon has been a competitor for Apple in a few areas over the last couple of years, particularly in areas like AI assistants and smart home accessory support. Most recently, The Information reported that an increasing number of home builders have opted to go with Alexa-enabled smart homes, rather than install HomeKit products during construction.

A Bloomberg report today claims that Amazon's next big push into consumer products will be a robot that can navigate around the user's home "like a self-driving car." The ultimate purpose of the robot is still unclear, but people familiar with the project believe it to be a "mobile Alexa" that would follow customers into areas of the home that don't have an Echo device.

Tags: Alexa, Amazon

Top Rated Comments

dannys1 Avatar
94 months ago
Google?? Hahaha, oh dear. How the masses are brainwashed.

The power and control Google have is the most terrifying thing of all. You think Facebook is bad, they're just a social network that could die and go away, you can leave and close your account. Google has no legitimate decent search engine equivalent.

Google completely controls and dictates exactly what they want the averge (and majority of) internet users to find on the internet. They are the gateway to nearly everything onine for most...

...at the same time they're searching on Google's engine with their Google account, over their Google wifi, connected to Google fibre, which is using Google DNS servers using their Google phone to access their Google mail, put dates in their Google calender and add contacts to Google contacts and store their life on Google drive, after watching videos on Youtube before planning their trip with Google maps all in their Google web browser and then wonder why Google knows more about them than they even do.
Score: 50 Votes (Like | Disagree)
spiderman0616 Avatar
94 months ago
This might be the dumbest Apple related story/survey I've ever seen.
Score: 35 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tod Avatar
94 months ago
I doubt Apple employees are so afraid of being fired they have to urinate in bottles.
Score: 24 Votes (Like | Disagree)
A MacBook lover Avatar
94 months ago
I can't see how someone could think of Amazon being best for society over Apple, let alone T E S L A.
Why wouldn’t Tesla be in there? They started the electric car movement and lit a fire underneath the auto industry’s ass.
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Xavier Avatar
94 months ago
Ahhhh, convenience over integrity.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
A MacBook lover Avatar
94 months ago
Apple, who brought us freedom of information to our hands versus amazon who has 2-day shipping.

Sorry, Apple wins.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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