Uhh, no. They gave us a slightly better loss.
Google’s latest concession makes the sideloading controversy a big nothingburger.
Nonsense. Google only conceded because of the bad publicity, and it’s still grudging.
You think they still care about publicity? They have an oligopoly with everything.
Look at Microslop and how people are finally trying out Linux, Google is next on the chopping block.
We can only hope! I’m still hanging on to my gmail accounts while I delete all my emails. It take so long though. I’ve got one about half cleaned out. Can’t wait for the day I can tell them to piss off completely.
I think they care about the attention it brings to their practices, particularly in jurisdictions outside the US where there may be more inclination to regulate them. Their anti-competitive practices in the context of their oligopoly are problematic. Their concession is what they have judged necessary to reduce the appearance of anti-competitive practices sufficiently to avoid regulatory action. Otherwise they would have gone full walled garden, as they initially intended. Not a ‘nothingburger’. Rather, an important skirmish in the ongoing struggle against their oligopoly.
24hrs is some kind of bullshit. Fuck that.
you can carry that choice over to your next phone.
let me guess, with a google account. sorry, google needs to be detonated.
