To be fair, the image in the middle is how we should think about Hippos. Murder Bois for sure.
Hey, I marked only one jira with "Works as intended" for only one of the big reports related to it, thank you very much.
What?
This is simply false. Google is in a lot of places. But it isn't Google forcing 3rd party sites to use Google.
Yes AdSense is terrible. The tracking it does is insane.... but Google doesn't come to other websites and say "you must use me!" There aren't laws requiring its use.
Companies use Google because it makes them money and it's easy.
Apple does the same shit that chrome does but they don't make standards. They make inscrutable shit that people have to reverse engineer or pay for to be able to interact with apples market share.
You talk about how other browsers have to support the standard that Google sets... yes, that happens. Chrome also implements standards others make. Chrome also ports standards to other browsers (especially webkit).
People act like Google always gets it's way... when it just doesn't. Google fails at so many things constantly...
The fact that people don't understand that amazon has more than 3x the influence that Google does in Internet infrastructure... or that Facebook analytics is used nearly 2x more than Google's or that many of Google web standards that were proposed over the past 10 years have been superseded by open source or secondary solutions not proposed by Google and that Google had to implement them...
My point isn't that Google isn't pervasive or that Google isn't intrusive. My point is that it is hypocrisy to not also sue Apple for the same things... and that hypocrisy is telling.
I was headed in the wrong direction for weeks
My point is they are both bad. Google doesn't force you to use its products. Other people choose to use them which results in you using them. Apple somehow never gets sued for more egregious versions of the same thing Google gets sued for is my point. It's an obvious double standard.
Wait what? You don't use Apple products do you?
With the exception of YouTube, every product you mentioned is hard coded default to Apple provided services.
Something like 40% of all maps usage is Apple maps. There does not exist a browser other than Safari and the market share of iPhones vs Android is pretty fairly split along socioeconomic boundaries.
Yes Google is the bigger target but the software ecosystem is significantly less walled garden / monopoly than the apple ecosystem.
Google doesn't own the Internet, Amazon does (10% Google, 20% Microsoft, 30% Amazon). Do people seriously not know this?
Oh boy. This comic brings back the horror of leftpad being removed from npm and how it felt like half the internet fell apart.
How is it that Apple is so rarely seen in these cases? Apple is literally a vertical monopoly with a huge walled garden for software, massive data collection facilities, explicit planned obsolescence and hundreds of other anti consumer, anti government, anti privacy positions... How are they so rarely the target for these lawsuits and investigations?
Apples policy in the cases where it is targeted are so extreme it should be worrying to everyone.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills every time I read articles like this.
Did you post it to the atheism or the atheistmemes one?
No, because you won't agree to the rules of the game. This is the same bullshit that idiots like Ben Shapiro pull.
We have been doing some new pair work processes to expand group capabilities (and to train up some juniors) so I am happy to report that I got to share this with two whole people.
They did though. They really did.