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> Instead, they just hand you some poorly documented loose parts in a box and tell you, “good luck” and you’re on your own to fill the gaps. Google is fundamen
by fchicken 25d ago
> Instead, they just hand you some poorly documented loose parts in a box and tell you, “good luck” and you’re on your own to fill the gaps.
Google is fundamentally a spy company, not a product company
- bigyabai 25d agoAll of FAANG is, if we're being cynically reductive.
- dbmnt 25d agoApple has a very different business model than Google (Alphabet). It's not even close to the same in terms of how they make most of their money.
- bigyabai 25d agoI don't disagree. They're still a spy company, if we're being cynically reductive.
- devsda 25d agoIs there a way to ELI5 Google's primary business model without it coming across as spying on people? Very few have the same problem among FAANG and others.
- theshrike79 25d agoAds, Google is the world's largest ad company. Internally they can do anything EXCEPT fuck with the ad revenue. If you get more ways to get data off users and ad views, good.
- dns_snek 25d agoAs if hardware companies don't quite famously include spyware in their products. Everything from phones, cars, fridges, TVs, monitors, speakers, light bulbs, laptops and everything else that supports inclusion of spyware.
- fsflover 25d agoYou're not wrong today, but they are expanding their ads department to the detriment of users: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911901, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322556, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501511
- wooger 25d agoIt did do, but now it's putting ads in everything it will rapidly converge to the same practices to optimise shareholder value.
- delfinom 25d agoApple's own TOS allows them to datamine your data to sell you ads the same as anyone else.