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> Is it ignorant of me to wonder if the majority of the issues raised in this piece are either portrayed/worded poorly or just not very compelling? I think you
by rStar 6y ago
> Is it ignorant of me to wonder if the majority of the issues raised in this piece are either portrayed/worded poorly or just not very compelling?
I think you’re just missing the overarching point that googles position becomes stronger in a nonlinear way when you plug persistently updated pollable health data into what they already have.
without resorting to name calling your argument seems to be: “we’re going to hell anyway so why shouldn’t we let google take us there as fast as possible?”
my naive response would be that we should slow our descent into hell by any of the few means possible, while we wait for more humans to understand the danger to them that google, amazon, microsoft, apple ... are.
- shadowgovt 6y agoIt becomes stronger in a nonlinear way, but not in any fashion that American antitrust would block. European antitrust is a different story, and if the concern that FitBit being a "blessed" device on Android pushes out other biomonitors has teeth, so be it. I personally find that flavor of reasoning too conservative (by that model, GMail bundled with the Android OS is a faux pas because it makes it harder for other email providers to compete), but there are differing theories of what antitrust is for.