[vezycash]

>But he loses me on the next bit where he rules out incompetence and then jumps to org-level malice.

Google deliberately blocked Windows Phone users from MAPs. They gave bullshit reason that the browser wouldn't work. But it worked for those who knew how to change their user agent to something else.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-admits-it-was-blockin...

[seba_dos1]

It's stunning to me that in 2019 there are still people on Hacker News that don't believe in Google doing things like that intentionally.

[AlexandrB]

I think Google's early culture and ethos (Don't be evil.) as well as their initial positioning as the anti-Microsoft helped them get a lot of "street cred" among tech workers. It's taking a while for that idealized image to change. I was still giving Google the benefit of the doubt right up until AMP started getting pushed hard.