And yet they straight up ignore one of the biggest cell phone markets by not selling in the US at all.

https://fiber.google.com/

I’m pretty sure this is going to directly violate Internet neutrality laws when the FCC votes them back into effect.

I’m really failing to see how these two things are related. A chess program and a window manager are two completely different things with wholely different functions.

This would be great if everyone wasn’t waiting months for an invite

Are we reading the same thing? Netflix has more competition now than it ever has. When Netflix had cheaper prices when it has no competition than it does now. Piracy has been making a huge resurgence as well.

Google wave was sold off too, they absolutely do sell some things, just they prefer to take features and ideas to use in other products.

Cable started out without ads too. That was why you paid for it.

Lineage OS by default comes DeGoogled and works just fine. Both phones I ran it on had absolutely no issues. It must be more niche than I thought though because no one here is talking about it.