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If this is true, could you imagine if Google tried to pull this on Apple? Making YouTube music show up when using the siri remote. These allegations are serious

If this is true, could you imagine if Google tried to pull this on Apple? Making YouTube music show up when using the siri remote. These allegations are serious, and if Roku isn't lying it's straight up crazy.

deckard1 6y ago
Apple and Google already have a symbiotic anti-competitive relationship on the iPhone worth billions of dollars. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s... Only reason Google can't bully Apple is because Apple is too big.
vineyardmike 6y ago
They could never pull this on Apple. Apple has too much user base support leverage and is too willing to expunge apps that don’t play along.
enos_feedler 6y ago
Serious they may be, but it's just a business deal. They can take it or leave it.
coldacid 6y ago
Apple would laugh and tell Google to fuck off, right before removing every app for iOS that even contacts any Google service. They're about the only company out there with the clout and cash to give Google the finger without having to go to the courts (legal and/or public opinion) to do it.
- izacus 6y ago
  Apple does no such thing in case of search in Safari, so why are you making this stuff up? Not too mention Apple puts the same kind of requirements on developers and apps on their own tvOS platform - including UX behaviours and format support.
- tinus_hn 6y ago
  Apple didn’t become big by behaving like a child, nor by being a pushover. Typically they create a reasonable plan and go through with it. They know Google needs Apple as much as Apple needs Google, and of course the opposite statement is the same. Apple showed their teeth when Google tried these tricks with their Maps app. Google isn’t really in a position to make tough demands.

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If this is true, could you imagine if Google tried to pull this on Apple? Making YouTube music show up when using the siri remote. These allegations are serious

by post_break 6y ago

deckard1 6y ago
Apple and Google already have a symbiotic anti-competitive relationship on the iPhone worth billions of dollars. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s... Only reason Google can't bully Apple is because Apple is too big.
vineyardmike 6y ago
They could never pull this on Apple. Apple has too much user base support leverage and is too willing to expunge apps that don’t play along.
enos_feedler 6y ago
Serious they may be, but it's just a business deal. They can take it or leave it.
coldacid 6y ago
Apple would laugh and tell Google to fuck off, right before removing every app for iOS that even contacts any Google service. They're about the only company out there with the clout and cash to give Google the finger without having to go to the courts (legal and/or public opinion) to do it.
- izacus 6y ago
  Apple does no such thing in case of search in Safari, so why are you making this stuff up? Not too mention Apple puts the same kind of requirements on developers and apps on their own tvOS platform - including UX behaviours and format support.
- tinus_hn 6y ago
  Apple didn’t become big by behaving like a child, nor by being a pushover. Typically they create a reasonable plan and go through with it. They know Google needs Apple as much as Apple needs Google, and of course the opposite statement is the same. Apple showed their teeth when Google tried these tricks with their Maps app. Google isn’t really in a position to make tough demands.