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This is very true. Google is not a reliable partner. Update: consumers realized this years ago. This is why Google has to announce messaging apps two at a time
by panpanna 7y ago
This is very true. Google is not a reliable partner.
Update: consumers realized this years ago. This is why Google has to announce messaging apps two at a time and cancel them next year. This is why Microsoft products are so extremely popular on Android.
- cbsks 7y agoA partner isn’t a partner unless you have a signed contract
- panpanna 7y agoOh, there is a contract. It's just very one-sided.
- hedora 7y agoIndeed it is one sided. I wonder if the courts will agree this applies to content that web servers transmit to google’s crawler. If so, can I add such an agreement to my homepage, and claim it applies to all the http requests I initiate?: > When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.
- jrockway 7y agoHTTP has a builtin mechanism for this; you can send 200 OK if you want copyright law to control the use of your content, or 403 Forbidden if you want more restrictions. Google, of course, does not super care about your extra conditions, so the 403 route probably isn't going to get you much.
- Jabbles 7y agoInterestingly, there is a legal term related to one-sided contracts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
- xfitm3 7y agoI have a contract for gapps, I have not been burned yet but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.
- onetimemanytime 7y agoSay what you say abut Microsoft...you can still run a 20 year old program on Windows.
- brennebeck 7y agoIsn’t that his point? That MS is reliable while Big G isn’t?
- nitrogen 7y agoIt's funny, Microsoft used to have a reputation for announcing things but never building them (vaporware) to delay people's purchases of competing products. Google takes it one step further by actually releasing a product, getting everybody on it, then killing it.
- iamtheworstdev 7y agoThat can be a burden in itself though. The size of the OS and even the processors we use can't be shrunk down because of all of that backwards compatibility. It's some what if an anchor / technical debt in itself.
- avtar 7y ago> The size of the OS and even the processors we use can't be shrunk down because of all of that backwards compatibility On the other side of the fence Apple breaks compatibility all the time (see OpenGL vs Metal 2). Yet you can run Windows 10 on comparatively lower specced hardware while still being able to run apps developed for Windows XP.