Don't be evil, 2009 edition: "Remove the search engine setting. Hard-code the search engine to Google" https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/GlobalSearch/ …pic.twitter.com/nLIvwkwnp6
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The EU fined Google ~$5B for anti-competitive Android/search behavior. A Google employee and lawyer (not Google counsel, not speaking on behalf of Google) says Google's real crime was being too open: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4581_en.htm … https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17559985 …pic.twitter.com/bbLYZzXD4g
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As a mere lay person, I don't understand why the openness is the problem? Didn't MS get in trouble without being open? It seems to me that things like preventing DDG/Bing from being used are the problem; one could have an open platform that doesn't do the shady stuff Google doespic.twitter.com/uKlCFuUYvA
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BTW, I don't really mean legally. I don't understand why Google's reputation is fine-to-good when MS's reputation in the 90s/00s was garbage. They both seem to throw their weight around in the same way. If anything, Google seems to do it more?pic.twitter.com/3qJ3LCk7h5
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Misses the point entirely - the issue is that once you have a dominant platform you can’t use that to lock customers into your services. I thought the industry had learnt that lesson from Microsoft, but Google is just Microsoft - 15yrs making all the same mistakes :)
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