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by goodguyamerikan 1498 days ago
Truth is every last company on earth wants to monopolize and lock its customers. There's a reason why king of pretend-openness Google doesn't support carddav and caldav
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LinAGKar 1498 days ago
Yes, they do. They've got CalDAV at https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/calid/events and https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/calid/user, and CardDAV discoverable through https://www.googleapis.com/.well-known/carddav.
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goodguyamerikan 1498 days ago
In Android I meant (sorry I wasn't clear) Your comment further shows how disingenuous their stance is
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fredoliveira 1497 days ago
> Your comment further shows how disingenuous their stance is

Does it really? I think it just shows that you didn't know about something they offer, and decided to attribute that to them being malicious.

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criddell 1497 days ago
It's the publishers that have handed Amazon their (near) monopoly on ebooks. If they wouldn't have insisted on DRM or at least had insisted on non-proprietary DRM, you would be able to buy books anywhere and read them anywhere.

I prefer reading on my Kindle to paper books but I also love browsing and supporting book stores and the people who work there. I've always wished that I could browse a bookstore, take a stack of books to the front and have them scan a QR code (or something like that) on my ereader and sell me digital copies of books rather than the paper copies.

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