Google is offering a far more pared-down solution to the court’s ruling that it illegally monopolized search

  • brie@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    It’s a miracle that Google botched messengers, Google+, cloud ('member app engine?). They could have been even more dominant. I still like them more than MS and FB.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend. It’s just another asshole.

      Google, over the past few years has notably getting worse. Apps that always worked flawlessly lately started getting buggy. YouTube app on Android now crashes near daily, Gmail is suddenly riddled with bugs… It wasn’t like this.

      Google was a software / tech company that started dabbling in ads to make money. This change toe company to what it is now, an ad company that does a bit of tech on the side.

      Google Chrome is now the new ie6 and though it sucks in different ways from ie6, at the core the problem is the same

      Google and Microsoft are really the same company, it’s just that (for now, still) Google’s software sucks less

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        1 year ago

        Have you tried NewPipe? YouTube changed the API a few times, and it broke for a day. Otherwise, it’s excellent. I had trouble with Google Pay lately, which is really frustrating, I reverted to cash. No trouble with Chrome or Gmail on Android.

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        1 year ago

        Chrome itself is rated 4.1 in Play Store, while Firefox is rated 4.6. Google Chrome dominance, at this point, is a consequence of monopolistic practices and not user preference. They are now using their predominant position in the browser market to apply ad technologies that their users rightly didn’t ask for, and they don’t like it.

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      1 year ago

      Ye they’re not the worst. I’d def pick then over apple for example, at least makes android which is sick

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          1 year ago

          Does anyone ever actually ‘want’ Xcode? Is it not just a necessary evil to be able to do iOS development?

          Agreed otherwise, M-series macs are sick as hell

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            1 year ago

            I’ve met Android devs with iPhones, so the answer is probably yes. I don’t know if Xcode is worse than Android Studio or Flutter. I honestly just hate mobile development in general because it can’t be done on the same device as the code runs. It feels like driving while wearing boxing gloves.

            It took Apple 15 years to break free from Intel, and that pushed Qualcomm to make laptop CPUs. In many aspects, it’s more impressive than the iPhone.

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              1 year ago

              I don’t think the Android devs with iPhones are yearning for Xcode.

              Having used both, Android Studio is far superior in my opinion. Most iOS devs I talk to seem to have a particular disdain for Xcode as well, so that seems to track.