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Your comments have been enlightening. Thanks for confirming what I always suspected [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12410662

This is a Google talking point, and a laughable one at that. The list of complainants is full of American companies. Here's DuckDuckGo for example:

https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1019562507294461953

It's distributed to all member states in the proportion that they contribute to the EU budget, after all appeals are completed.

Sundar Pichai in 2009 [1]:

>Second, Google believes that the browser market is still largely uncompetitive, which holds back innovation for users. This is because Internet Explorer is tied to Microsoft's dominant computer operating system, giving it an unfair advantage over other browsers. Compare this to the mobile market, where Microsoft cannot tie Internet Explorer to a dominant operating system, and its browser therefore has a much lower usage.

By the way, I think it's absurd for Google to threaten that they may now charge a license for Android [2]. They're effectively saying that now that they've eliminated all competition over the past 10 years and achieved a dominant share of the market, they're going to raise prices. That's a slam dunk case even in the US's broken antitrust system.

[1] https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2009/02/browsers-powered...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17585396/google-android-e...

Android got market share because it was free, not because it was good. If Google didn't share ad revenue with carriers and OEMs or tried to extract a license fee ala Windows, Google would not be sitting on 80% global market share today.

>Second, Google believes that the browser market is still largely uncompetitive, which holds back innovation for users. This is because Internet Explorer is tied to Microsoft's dominant computer operating system, giving it an unfair advantage over other browsers. Compare this to the mobile market, where Microsoft cannot tie Internet Explorer to a dominant operating system, and its browser therefore has a much lower usage.

There's no reason why the show would have to glorify murder or be otherwise partial to Israel.

Netflix should make this into a movie or series. Plenty of good material to draw from: this heist, assassinating Iranian scientists with magnetic bombs on motorcycles [1][2] and Stuxnet [3].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/11/iran-nuclear-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/world/middleeast/16stuxne...

So what's the US's (and the world's) excuse post Nixon's visit to China? The world could have easily continued to isolate China like they do North Korea today.

I don't see why a non-state actor like Apple should try to act like the State Department.

Google has been trying for years to get back into China and they have no problems acquiescing to whatever the Chinese government requires to do so [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/amir/status/1009899502512115712

That's what the relationship was before Google withheld turn by turn directions and wanted more data than Apple was willing to give [1]:

>But multiple sources familiar with Apple’s thinking say the company felt it had no choice but to replace Google Maps with its own, because of a disagreement over a key feature: Voice-guided turn-by-turn driving directions.

>Spoken turn-by-turn navigation has been a free service offered through Google’s Android mobile OS for a few years now. But it was never part of the deal that brought Google’s Maps to iOS. And sources say Apple very much wanted it to be. Requiring iPhone users to look directly at handsets for directions and manually move through each step — while Android users enjoyed native voice-guided instructions — put Apple at a clear disadvantage in the mobile space. And having chosen Google as its original mapping partner, the iPhone maker was now in a position where an archrival was calling the shots on functionality important to the iOS maps feature set.

>And this caused Apple — which typically enjoys very tight control over its products — no end of philosophical discomfort, sources say. Apple pushed Google hard to provide the data it needed to bring voice-guided navigation to iOS. But according to people familiar with Google’s thinking, the search giant, which had invested massive sums in creating that data and views it as a key feature of Android, wasn’t willing to simply hand it over to a competing platform.

>And if there were terms under which it might have agreed to do so, Apple wasn’t offering them. Sources tell AllThingsD that Google, for example, wanted more say in the iOS maps feature set. It wasn’t happy simply providing back-end data. It asked for in-app branding. Apple declined. It suggested adding Google Latitude. Again, Apple declined. And these became major points of contention between the two companies, whose relationship was already deteriorating for a variety of other reasons, including Apple’s concern that Google was gathering too much user data from the app.

I think it was a major strategic mistake on Google's part. But this was the heyday of Andy Rubin, and during that era Google was letting the tail wag the dog in trying to differentiate Android. They've since come to their senses and Android is back to being what it was always designed to be, a vessel for Google's services that actually make money. But that forced Apple to enter this business when they otherwise wouldn't have and now it will serve as a core technology from autonomous cars to AR. And since they're already sinking the capital and doing the grunt work to make Maps from scratch, they might as well earn some incremental revenue from it [2].

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20120926/apple-google-maps-talks-crash...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/maps/mapkitjs/

The newest Macbooks are more reliable than older models according to data Apple Insider got from Apple stores [1].

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/04/30/2016-macbook-pro-...

There's nothing about Apple, banks or cable companies that are entirely "machine run". In fact they're the exact opposite of Google in that they invest significantly in customer support.

You don't have to wish for it, that's what's happening.

>Apple’s primary leverage with the Chinese government is Chinese consumers’ love for Apple products, said Dean Garfield, head of the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group that represents Apple and other tech companies.

That's not Apple's primary leverage in China. It's the millions of workers they indirectly employ there.

This is definitely the move of a company in the process of scaling up production of their mass market vehicle that their valuation hinges on. Definitely not about managing cash flow.

Android was only successful because it was free. A licensing business model a la Windows wouldn't wouldn't have led to its current state of market dominance.

ITP 2.0 just got the Seal of Approval.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1003716676813090818

Apple has said that 90% of the "genuine" chargers on Amazon are fake and they've sued some sellers [1]. They haven't sued Amazon, and this story is probably why.

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/10/19/apple-amazon-charger-lawsuit/

I think this might be related:

https://robmaceachern.com/2018/03/31/apples-new-ad-conversio...

If Apple mandates this API for its own Search Ads as well as third party ad networks, I think it will be a massive improvement on the status quo.

I think this is more like Search Ads 2.0, except it won't just be in the App Store but also in third party apps like Pinterest.

Unless they're going to leverage their monopoly in Search or Android to get into this business, Nextdoor doesn't have anything to worry about. Google doesn't have a history of releasing products that succeed organically.

And they probably will, but that's why the EU's antitrust cases against Google are so important!

Nope.

NYT had a nice profile of one of the lawyers a few years ago [1]. It had this quote from Sam Altman:

>Asked to sum up the tech community’s feelings about Mr. Edelson, Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, a technology incubator that invests in very young companies, said the lawyer was regarded as “a leech tarted up as a freedom fighter.”

He's the American Max Schrems.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-s...

There's nothing to "eat" because the court didn't certify the class.

Substitute TripAdvisor or Expedia or any other business in a valuable vertical in place of Yelp and perhaps you can evaluate the antitrust case against Google with more objectivity.

A big advantage of HomeKit is that it works locally and mandates security in the ecosystem.

Good journalists are like sharks and they're getting whiffs of Theranos or Enron and are rightly digging into the company.

>- music now has 270 million paying subscribers - that's 100 million more than a year ago.

That has to be wrong. They were at 40 million a few months ago.

This deal should be blocked unless they're forced to divest spectrum to someone like Comcast or Charter. Comcast and Charter already have a partnership for wireless and are doing MVNOs, so they might be interested in it. Competition has been working well with 4 players in wireless, and prices have come down.