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Google is ‘crooked’ and a bully, CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games testifies in Play Store trial (fortune.com)

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Google is ‘crooked’ and a bully, CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games testifies in Play Store trial::Epic alleges that Google has been engaged in illegal price-gouging by collecting commissions ranging from 15% to 30% on in-app digital transactions.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You know a company sucks when the public decides to side with fucking Google instead of them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Seriously, I actually agree with what they're arguing in the lawsuit, but it's one of those "worst person you know manages to make a good point" situations. You don't want to actually agree with them, because you understand they have ulterior motives for having that position.

Despite Google being the bad guy in this, I certainly do not fucking want a shit-ass company like Epic to fucking win.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Actually Google wasn't that bad in the past. They did a lot of good, open sourced a lot of projects, made a lot of Linux contributions, gave us AOSP, Kubernetes, Golang, Tensor Flow, etc.

They even had a moonshot program, working on a lot of emerging technologies, and were in general pretty cool. I think things started to go downhill when they announced Alphabet, back then they started to optimize their operations by minimising the costs and maximizing their profits. In general this made their shareholders pretty happy and the rest pretty sour.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

So... When the name Google started only referring to the actual web services instead of everything the parent company was doing. Those types of things are still there, they're just part of Alphabet (literally the old Google), which the media doesn't really talk about anymore because the average person has no idea what that means, but they know Google.