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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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...
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