I literally cannot come with a better punchline

    • John Richard@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Embrace, extend, and extinguish. They literally documented it as being their strategy. Now the justice department is chasing Google who despite being bad, at least provides enough source code where people have created privacy-focused derivatives of Android. I’d much rather see them go after Microsoft first but the government relies on Microsoft, and Microsoft relies on our tax dollars going to the government so they can get them.

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        12 minutes ago

        I don’t really understand how Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is relevant to this, would you mind explaining?

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        3 hours ago

        Kill Google, kill Apple, kill Meta, kill Amazon. I’m not sure whether killing Apple is necessary - despite their problems, they at least have an honest business model (of profiting off a cult). I think yes, split them too.