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> But cue the typical "don't be evil" sorts of comments. If this were an isolated incident, I could see your point. But Google has been steadily closing off se
by morganvachon 12y ago
> But cue the typical "don't be evil" sorts of comments.
If this were an isolated incident, I could see your point. But Google has been steadily closing off services and putting up walls over the past couple of years. It's becoming a trend, and not a good one. In a time when even Microsoft is accepting and supporting open source, Google is increasingly looking like the bad guy with every move like this.
- jfoster 12y agoThe even broader trend seems to be that the market leader does this. Microsoft did it with IE, Office, etc. Google is doing it with Chrome, Android, etc. It's possible there'll be something else "more open than Android/Chrome" in ~5 years, and then ~5 years after that it will be getting locked down in the same way that Chrome & Android are now. It might be a cyclic phenomena in the tech industry. Potentially startups can even exploit it by looking at what is in the process of being locked down and producing a more open competitor to it.