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by mrlala 2398 days ago
>when Google decides to shut down the service (which happens all the time)

What service has Google shut down that you paid for?

>deactivate your account (which also happens all the time)

When has Google randomly deactivated your account without compensation for something that you paid for?

You are making some gigantic leaps of internet logic here to be honest.. no one is going to deny they have an interesting record on projects, but I find it astounding you are comparing 100% freely created google products to a service which you are paying for.

>I do not want to rent my computer nor i want to rent my gaming device, i want to fully control everything in it and i do not want any commercial scheme that erodes the marketplace which allows me to have that freedom.

I sure hope you don't use Steam!
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guitarbill 2398 days ago
Chromecast Audio, Nexus, Nest? Even the Pixel, their "flagship" phone, has only gotten 3 years of updates, ending this year [0]. That, and just look at the YouTube debacle and how they treat creators. Fool me once...

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/rip-og-pixel-google-...

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mrlala 2398 days ago
Nothing you listed there means you can't still use it, so your argument is wrong.
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smileybarry 2397 days ago
> What service has Google shut down that you paid for?

Google Play Music will soon get replaced by the arguably worse YouTube Music, so that. I paid for GPM for years and when the YT Music switch happened and they announced my uploads and library won't get migrated for a while (with uploads maybe not at all), I left for Spotify. Not to mention how much worse YT Music is compared to GP Music.

> I sure hope you don't use Steam!

Steam has existed for the past 17 years, and Gabe Newell has gone on record saying that if Steam ever shut down they would look into unlocking all protected games. Even if that turns out to be impossible I still trust Valve in their industry way more than I trust Google in an industry they just entered.

Nowadays a great deal of Steam games don't even use Steam's DRM features and will run happily without Steam, or with a stub "steam_api.dll".

Steam doesn't take away any control over its games from me. You can mod any part of your game and still run it. Hell, you can turn off updates for any game and still run it via Steam (not breaking DRM if it uses it).

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