• @Clent@lemmy.world
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    169 months ago

    Everyone says Apple’s walled garden is a problem.

    Google built something far more insidious. higher walls but glass, no garden just a swamp of ads.

    • @HughJanus
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      29 months ago

      Google has lots of problems but “a walled garden” it absolutely is not.

      There’s an open source version of Android with hundreds of forks.

      There’s an open source version of Chrome with dozens of forks.

      You can install literally any APK you want on Android without any workaround shitfuckery, rooting or jailbreaking.

      All Google apps are available on iOS and MacOS.

      People use Google products because, from a pure user standpoint, they’re a compelling option.

      You can sign up for a Google Workspace account and have virtually everything you need to run a business at a compelling price. And it all works quite well.

      None of that means they aren’t using their domination nefariously but it sure as shit is not a walled garden.

      • @Clent@lemmy.world
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        19 months ago

        This reads like a Google ad. I know you’re not a Google marketing shill. They don’t need it. Their users will justify their own choice to the point their literally lose the scope of the thread.

        • @HughJanus
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          19 months ago

          Not so much a Google ad as it is shitting on Apple

    • Sabre363
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      19 months ago

      They are all part of the same walled shit hole disguised in a veneer of shiny new products and empty promises.

      • @Clent@lemmy.world
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        19 months ago

        Sure. It’s just funny to watch people pick Google because Apple is bad.

        At least Apple isn’t selling every price of your data to advertisers.

        Apple hatred is mostly people who have never used it.

        Everyone has used Google.

        Google is inarguably worse but people get religious about it. As long as they can think of one thing Google does better, they will justify the abuse.

        Sort of like republican voters.

        • Sabre363
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          29 months ago

          Apple is almost certainly selling your data, perhaps not to same extent as Google, but personal data is literally these companies biggest commodity.

          • @Clent@lemmy.world
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            19 months ago

            Yep. That’s the justification I was talking about.

            People have a blindness to Apple so they let Google take their data.