• @kewjo
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    11 year ago

    This is simply false. Google is in a lot of places. But it isn’t Google forcing 3rd party sites to use Google.

    it’s the choice of a company not of the end user, which I feel is a more apt comparison to Apple. None of these products are being forced to use but when you look at the current state of things, the companies choose to use Google/Facebook because it makes them money. From a user standpoint there’s not a lot you can do to avoid them if you want to use the Internet.

    I think we both agree these companies are monopolies and need to be broken up, but you have to start somewhere. imo Google+Amazon are the biggest threats to consumers followed by meta, apple and Microsoft.

    • fkn
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      11 year ago

      I’m in this really weird situation where I think fundamentally we do agree, but you keep saying things that I think are factually incorrect.

      3rd parties don’t force apple services on you like they do with Google (although it is becoming more common)… Apple forces 3rd parties to pay for the right to advertise or sell to its market share.

      Apple is significantly more monopolistic than Google. Google is just bigger. Google has way less monopolistic actions and stances. It’s just apparent that people don’t understand the difference.