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Googlers of hacker news: stop allowing this.
by tbrock 10y ago
Googlers of hacker news: stop allowing this.
- alphonsegaston 10y agoGoogle lobbied against the FTC rule change that blocked this under Obama, so I think it's far past time we believe them to be acting benevolently on our behalf. It's sad how things have evolved and how many smart, talented people have been swept up in this. But we have to organize and act outside the context of corporate appeals if we want to resist this kind of stuff.
- JustSomeNobody 10y agoGood luck with that.
- londons_explore 10y agoGoogle has less power than you might imagine here... Only "desirable" phones can set rules about what the carrier can and cannot do. Today, thats the iPhone only. Unless customers will leave the network if it does not stock a particular model of phone, then the network can insist the phone manufacturer install crapware, and until the manufacturer agrees, that model won't be sold.
- UncleMeat 10y agoAndroid is (sortof) open source and anybody can install an app. What could Google do to stop this?