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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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
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.
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“.
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
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