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I'm happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it's a lot at stake.

Google basically says "Trust us". What a joke.

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[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"All Google associated platforms hereby block all ios devices."

I am not a fan of apple. But this would piss a lot of people off but is well within their ability and rights to do. And unfortunately they have enough of a monopoly with the internet (Google, youtube, and all the other sites served through their dns) that they can essentially break the internet for people they block. They would get 90% of those ios users to switch to Android.

The flow of information through the internet is one of the greatest advancements of man kind and we have to trust a massive cooperation not to destroy it.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You underestimate the willingness of iOS users to tolerate a sub-par experience in exchange for their fancy walled garden ecosystem.

Just the os alone is restrictive as hell, and they don’t care.

Could they do it? Maybe. But it would be profoundly stupid of them to try.

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your high-horse opinion of Apple users aside, you are right that OP is greatly overestimating people’s commitment to google’s services over their iPhones.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I am an apple user, but I was on android up until last year. It’s more an observation based on conversations I’ve had before and after switching than anything.

[–] UmbrellAssassin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean he's kinda right. I've seen starving, rabid dogs go at road kill with less intensity than an apple user at a "new" apple invention.

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you underestimate how much of the internet depends on Google to operate.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Apple already has attestation in safari, so why would any major companies exclude them when they offer it also?

Google would be really stupid to try to exclude apple os, because apple has safari. They would lose their iOS users, iOS users wouldn’t become android users.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not a fan of apple. But this would piss a lot of people off but is well within their ability and rights to do.

That's a goddamn lie. They absolutely DO NOT have the "right" to engage in behavior that blatantly anti-competitive!

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ok they the power and apparently the legal power*

Ad of right now ues and until ftc grow a spine

[–] Alto@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

The fact that they have that much of a monopoly is exactly why it isn't legal, but those laws are basically never enforced