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Apps 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 Googl
by Turskarama 1y ago
Apps 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.