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I really hate that motto since it's so good at blinding otherwise intelligent people. It has nothing to do with anything. Google's polices aren't "good" and A
by danssig 15y ago
I really hate that motto since it's so good at blinding otherwise intelligent people. It has nothing to do with anything. Google's polices aren't "good" and Apple's aren't "evil". They're both engaging in trade offs. Apple can make sure every user has a nicer experience at the cost of some freedoms. Android offers more freedoms at the cost of some people having ridiculous battery life, trojans stealing people's credit card numbers every so often, etc. Google has taken the exact same trade off that MS took back in their day.
- superasn 15y agoActually, Apple certainly doesn't follow the do no evil thing much like Google does. If you have any instances of Google doing such malicious things like Apple is doing, I'd love to be informed (also will help remove my misgivings): http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/12/09/apple-w3c http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2011/12/09/apple-w3c
- danssig 15y agoApple isn't doing any "malicious" things if you're talking about "lock down", app store and so on (the lawsuits are a separate issue). And Google has done it's share of things; claiming to be for net neutrality but not really being when they saw a way to profit, claiming to pull out of China on "moral grounds" but not actually doing so until they got hacked, the lock-in-raise-price strategy of their for-pay platform, etc. The motto is meaningless, it's only there to sucker people and it's pretty embarrassing that it works.