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Well, we can also discuss the morality of the phone in question, which has the search engine and maps application hardwired in the firmware and can't easily be
by yanw 16y ago
Well, we can also discuss the morality of the phone in question, which has the search engine and maps application hardwired in the firmware and can't easily be changed by the owner, it's an inferior product with inferior experience that I don't think anyone should recommend.
- mbyrne 16y agoyes, you are right of course about the phone. But if the reason the phone isn't listed as one of the Android phones is because Google doesn't think the phone is good, then that is a slippery slope. What else do they think is inferior and will be (not just deprecated but) blacklisted from other search results? For Google to list their marketing material under what I would argue appears as search results is a mistake.
- yanw 16y agoYou seem fundamental against them curating any result, now I don't think they do, but it's their right to do so, and sometimes I think they should do so, here is an argument from Eric Goldman (who criticized their in house ad policy) on how curation is within their rights: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2010/09/texas_ag_invest.htm http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2010/09/texas_ag_invest...