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
আপনি আপনার টুইটগুলিতে ওয়েব থেকে এবং তৃতীয়-পক্ষ অ্যাপ্লিকেশনগুলির মাধ্যমে অবস্থান তথ্য যেমন শহর বা সুনির্দিষ্ট অবস্থান যোগ করতে পারবেন। আপনার কাছে আপনার টুইটের অবস্থান ইতিহাস মোছার বিকল্প থাকবে। আরও জানুন
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
MS allowed third party apps like Netscape, if they controlled the distribution they could have silently killed it or just gaslit them weirdness very early on before any regulator would notice
And Apple hasn’t been fined like this
This exact line of defense was used in the 90s/00s by people defending Microsoft and I think the same response applies. Apple's marketshare is larger than back then, but still nowhere near Google's.
And as I said, I don't mean legally. I don't love that Apple's platform is so closed, but they don't (just for example) pay off devs to use dark patterns in their installer to trick users into accidentally switching back to chrome from FF:https://twitter.com/danluu/status/887724695558205440 …
Is that legal? Probably, just like MS hiring developer evangelists to sit on standards committee to deadlock them was probably legal, but it still seems morally wrong. If the best defense one can come up with is, some other company hasn't gotten sued for being as bad or worse...
They're probably correct in the narrow sense that it will make it harder internally. A lot of the push to close are things where the consequences are what most people would want, like you can get a phone that doesn't have large portions of the OS wrecked by carriers...
...because they pulled so much of it into closed Google Play Services, which I guess I don't like in the abstract.
For a long time, I think we had the worst of both worlds here. Most Android phones came with vendor-specific crapware *and* you couldn't change the default search provider (without doing something most people wouldn't do, like rooting the phone and installing a custom OS image).
"Openness" is a post-hoc rationalization, not an explanation with predictive power. https://stratechery.com/2018/the-european-commission-versus-android/ … has a good analysis (as usual for this blog)
Further down in the screenshotted thread, the Google person quoted above claims that the open-source nature is purely due to altruism. He says "I was there" and ofc. no one in the thread can claim to have been there, but no one seems to buy it.
IMO, a lot of the events at the time (e.g., pushing an anonymous commit that hard codes the search engine to Google) make altruism seem like an incomplete explanation at best, but ofc. I wasn't there so what do I know?
Which is also exactly the same kind of thing MS repeatedly got into anti-trust litigation with, in both the US and EU, despite them not being open.
If anything, there seems to be a fairly consistent line here, namely that if you happen to be a major OS vendor and take steps in your OS to undercut your competition in other markets, that will get you into trouble.
Maybe „open“ is meant as „supports running third-party software at all“.
How the fuck is http://duck.com legal.
Isn’t the main way Google makes money from Android by being the default search engine and not having to bid huge amounts of money to do so? From what I know it seems like if they couldn’t do that they just wouldn’t have bothered making Android.
being default search engine is one thing, not allowing the user to configure others is another
Fair, it would be nice if they allowed that. Although from what I’ve read about the EU ruling, none of their complaints is about consumers not having the ability to change the home screen search engine.
টুইটার তার ক্ষমতার বাইরে চলে গেছে বা কোনো সাময়িক সমস্যার সম্মুখীন হয়েছে আবার চেষ্টা করুন বা আরও তথ্যের জন্য টুইটারের স্থিতি দেখুন।