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A bad look when Alphabet is selling competing devices like Chromecast (at least partially competing) and then pull YouTube from Roku devices.
by phdelightful 5y ago
A bad look when Alphabet is selling competing devices like Chromecast (at least partially competing) and then pull YouTube from Roku devices.
- reaperducer 5y agoInterestingly, and only slightly related, Apple seems to be expanding the number of devices that it's on. There was an apple.com web site recently that stated that either Apple Music or AppleTV was available on game consoles. Naturally, as soon as someone noticed and made it public, it was pulled. But it's interesting to see how readily the big content producers are willing to add and remove themselves from people's boxes.
- ninth_ant 5y agoThat's not "a bad look", it's continuing anti-competitive behaviour by an aggressive monopolist. Google using their dominance in one area "youtube" to hurt competitors in another space -- in this case to promote their Chromecast devices. Google has already earned $8B in fines for similar behaviour in the last few years in some of their other product areas (ads, android, and search). This is just what they do at this point, it's not a "look".