TechNom (nobody)

The egregious part in this is that Google presents RCS as an open standard to get carriers to adopt it. But then they retain enough control to exert their power over users like this. The same happened with Android. I don’t know how long such exploitation is tolerated before such aggressors are split up into a thousand competing businesses.

How about YouTube? Video dislikes were a reliable indicator as to which videos to avoid. Now it’s full of shitty clickbaits like ‘NASA lied’. What was their excuse again?

Same with Reddit. They are now selling user data happily after their entire userbase revolted. Now nobody has a problem.

Why just Google? Search has gone into the gutter across the board. Certain search constraints like excluding keywords or sites no longer work. Amazon doesn’t even care what you type in - they just show you what they want you to buy.

Just dump Google’s browser and all their services. They are not necessary to make use of the internet.

I mean, if it’s a one time payment then he has no reasons to regret the decision even if the users dropped off. On the other hand, if he was expecting a recurring royalty from the buyer, then he didn’t think it through.

PS: I’m not justifying his actions in any manner. If a sale without a heads up is deceptive, his last reply was outright indignation. I’m just trying to understand whether he actually regretted it or not.

I thought it was a one-time payment.

I have KOReader on mine. It’s a great combo. The only problem is that kobo in general consumes battery charge fast.

Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence*.

• Except for Google. This is the same company that decided that ‘Don’t be evil’ is inappropriate for them.

Actually, this isn’t the first time they did it. There was a thread by a mozilla ex-employee that described how Google destroyed Firefox’s market share using the same dirty trick.