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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Here's the problem, though: If you say, "Consumers don't seem to be harmed by this action," you don't know what the alternative could have been. Consumers could have been much better off with additional competition.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
No, that is just flat out not true. Not having Google Play Services on a device in the US or the EU is a non-starter. It would never take off, and it would not have a chance in the market. So no, there is not plenty of competition for that.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Because the issue is when you force those terms on other OEMs. Apple is doing nothing of the sort.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
That's not a concern. As long as the APIs are the same, one should be able to install whatever apps they want to use.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
One or two have. Most Android OEMs aren't making that much money, if they're making any at all.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
And that's the issue the EU is having. Play Services is pretty much essential to having a successful smartphone product in much of the world (at least the US and the EU). Many, many Android apps are only distributed through the Play St
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I don't see why we'd owe each other that much here as opposed to everywhere else in our lives.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
At the time, Apple had the dominant smartphone, not Microsoft.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"no one is forcing them to use the Google app store either." Again, not a valid rebuttal. Just because someone doesn't have to use your product (and in this case, I would flat out disagree with your statement) does not mean y
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Whoa, there. He didn't say they do that to management.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
In addition to the other issues brought up, if you're the one constantly taking vacation, despite all of your other work being top-notch, you may be looked over for promotions/raises/etc. It does sound like your company is tr
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Presumably, that number would change. Or, if the government in charge is hostile to immigration, it might not.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
They could hire enough people to where there would be enough people for every day, yet everyone still gets to work 4 days.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Because most people reading it are employees, and as such, really are not going to care about the business side of things. Especially given the last 30 years of business gobbling up all the gains of increased productivity, and leaving worke
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
" What happens with crunch time? " Managers actually plan, and stop relying on it. Crunch time is not something that should exist, as it's just punishing employees for the inability of management to make a sane schedule.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I feel you've never dealt with Google's customer service, otherwise you wouldn't be saying this. They clearly cannot bother having competent customer support staff, or staff with the agency to actually do anything. And I feel
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Open source code is a gift." And the ability to work on it is a gift, too. If you're not going to take working on something as high profile as Python seriously, if you're just going to treat it as a hobby, then do every
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
That wealth was able to be generated due to everyone coming together to do things like spend on education, roads, fire protection, etc.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
That's not a valid rebuttal. In order to use the Play Store, Google is requiring that OEMs bundle many other Google apps. That is abusing a position in one area to benefit themselves in another anti-competititively.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I'm not willing to trust companies with self regulation.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I'm not seeing the problem. The APIs are still going to be the same; developers are still going to be able to write apps that work for everyone.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
No, because in these instances, it's Google forcing the other OEMs to bundle or not bundle things. Apple has no other OEMs, thus they're not competing with their other manufacturers.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
But if I, as a developer, want to send push notifications, I would have to send them somewhere else. I couldn't use the stuff I'm using for everyone else.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Google not allowing WP to have a YouTube app that purposely stripped out the ads and ignored various other aspects of the ToS is nowhere near the reason why WP wasn't viable.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Despite what the administration wants you to believe, we are not at "economic war" with our closest allies and trading partners.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Cause they don't want to be beholden to Apple in the mobile space.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"There is nothing that stops a manufacturer from providing microG instead of Play Services and hence cutting Google out." I would be shocked if 1). The licensing agreements with Google to get the Play Store in the first place allo
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
No. For something of this nature, it is not entitlement to expect the people working on the core team to treat it like a professional. The entitlement comes when you believe that you can take a project like this, that millions of people are
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Except that's not true. Our government could very, very, very easily enact single payer, and we have plenty enough wealth to do it.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
They've already tried. There's no interest currently for a 3rd also-ran OS, especially from a vendor that would be changing up the toolkit yet again.

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