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You think Google, the 5th largest company in the world (by mkt cap), has no skin in the game when it comes maintaining the finance industry status quo?
by fastball 6y ago
You think Google, the 5th largest company in the world (by mkt cap), has no skin in the game when it comes maintaining the finance industry status quo?
- ben509 6y agoReasons Google would not want the financial status quo: 1. It tends to retard technical progress. 2. They have to make deals with entrenched incumbents to do finance. 3. There's nothing stopping a hedge fund manipulating Alphabet's stock.
- notahacker 6y agoEven if they do want to preserve the financial status quo, it's pretty difficult to see where the review score of a retail broker app fits in with that. On the other hand avoiding review bombing is a Google Play store business objective, doing it in a half assed reactive way with an algorithm is Google's style, and of course it's also Google's style to not care about customer service nearly enough to wade into a debate about whether a pile on related to genuine upset with an app company's policy is really review bombing