[MBCook]

It’s me cynically suggesting that they’ll do that just to get rid of this annoyance. That’s what Facebook and many other big companies would do. I don’t know if Google has done in the past but it wouldn’t surprise me.

[vineyardmike]

> It’s me cynically suggesting that they’ll do that just to get rid of this annoyance.

Yes, i was just making a joke about how google kills things.

> That’s what Facebook and many other big companies would do.

I feel like this is pretty common across industries, idk why FB gets called out?

> I don’t know if Google has done in the past but it wouldn’t surprise me.

I can't remember anything they bought after losing a suit, but they did this with Moto, and i think also Kodak.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/08/google-to-buy-motoro...