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Chrome's monopoly is going to be worse than the IE days. Microsoft was more negligent than intentional. Google has been waiting for the day for a decade.

Look at what happened to Android. Google play services started out innocent, now it's half the OS. And "safety net", like the "patriot" act, is the nail in the coffin.

Buckle in bois for some good old fashioned monopoly fun

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I thought Play Services was designed to house more and more of the OS, so that Google could get back some control over updates, instead of letting device manufacturers never update their Android versions.

It's also conveniently not open source

And not available when sideloading

Yeah, rename IETF to GETF (Google Engineering Task Force). The only thing that prevents total domination today is iOS with its WebKit only policy.

It's quite ironic when one company's anti-competitive behavior paradoxically results in them preventing another company from achieving total monoculture domination.

Seriously this. Ironically Apple defends us from monopoly, maybe accidentally.

> .. company's anti-competitive behavior ..

I'm an Apple user and I paid premium specifically for this "anti-competitive behavior". I'm totally behind its policies. I feel protected from malware, scams and privacy leaks. Developers may complain all they want, not my problem.

Might that be one of the reasons Apple keeps that strict rule? Other than the disallowing of W+X of course.

For once I actually hope apple keeps up with that policy just to spite google

ChromeOS has won, expect ads for Web development to eventually turn into Chrome developer.

Chromium won the tech war, and V8 won the Js war. The only way to compete with chromium now would be to put webkit onto windows, but even then webkit is just duplicating the standards.

worse because : 1) its competent at doing its job

2) google dont care too much about their products once they release them.

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