This is what survey shows, with Amazon taking the 1st spot

Apr 23, 2018 08:54 GMT  ·  By

A new survey reveals that Amazon has the most positive impact on society out of all technology companies, scoring substantially higher than all of its rivals.

No less than 20 percent of the Americans named Amazon when asked what company has the most positive impact on society today, while Google was ranked second with 15 percent of the votes.

Apple made the top three with 11 percent, while Facebook surprisingly reached the fourth place with 10 percent. The social network’s score is unexpected, to say the least, following the Cambridge Analytica fiasco and the most recent accusations of user privacy violations, but as recode indicates, there are also many Americans who believe that Facebook also has a negative impact on society.

Microsoft only fifth

Microsoft is only fifth in the charts with 7 percent of the votes, despite the company’s increasing focus on technology which it says “empowers people to do more.” Microsoft has made it a priority to build products that provide users with the resources to create their own projects, and several key divisions were pushed in this direction, including software and hardware.

Microsoft has often been accused of investing too much in enterprise products and leaving consumers behind, and this survey seems to indicate that the public perception about the company is indeed that it’s moving way too fast to a strategy that doesn’t involve home users.

When it comes to CEOs, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos was once again named the leader that has the greatest impact on Americans’ lives with 22 percent of the votes. Google’s Sundar Pichai came in second with 18 percent, followed by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg with 17 percent. Apple’s Tim Cook and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella didn’t make the top three.

Tesla, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Snap, and Lyft have also made the top 10. The survey was conducted by SurveyMonkey and recode and included 2,772 US adults.

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