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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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...
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