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What are you talking about, the internet basically is google at this point. Apple mostly just sells consumer hardware and the software to go with it, they're hu
by Turskarama 1y ago
What are you talking about, the internet basically is google at this point. Apple mostly just sells consumer hardware and the software to go with it, they're huge but they don't have half of all tech companies relying on them.
- socalgal2 1y agoApps are bigger than the internet (the web). Apple want to control who can and can't make them and they wamt to control the payment method that yor're allowed to use. if they don't like you you're out. Those are far stronger controls over the world than anything google is doing
- Turskarama 1y agoApps are not bigger than the internet, almost all apps rely on the internet! Put another way: if Apple went bust that would be bad for apple users, but if Google went bust the world would temporarily stop.
- socalgal2 1y agoGoogle does not control "the internet". At best they control ads on the web. Apps are bigger than the web. > if Apple went bust that would be bad for apple users which happens to be 60% of the USA > Google went bust the world would temporarily stop. That's extreme hyperbole. Users would switch off gmail/gdocs/maps and be done.
- Turskarama 1y agoThe google outage last week affected Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Cloudflare, and that was only one set of APIs. Google additionally acts as a certificate authority for many of the worlds SSL certificates, so if those CA servers went down every website, service, and app relying on those certificates would also cease to work.