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by greglindahl 2898 days ago
Yeah, the EU and the US both had a big investigation of Google and search on the Android platform, but clearly it's amazing that they made this change. Totally lovable totalitarian control.
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Totalitarian control of your platform is tough pill to swallow but modern tech Giants have to keep their internet services visible. Microsoft especially is like a preview of future Google gone bad, having a free/paid OS laden with Ads and restrictive defaults. Cortana is useless since it literally won't accept any other search engine!

I'm curious to see legislation attempt to tackle this, obviously more competition is good! What gives me pause is this relentless trend of killing off small startups and competition through strict defaults like only using Safari on iOS and no other browser. Even chrome on iOS is just Safari with a different navbar