Apple put they services on Android devices too. Just not iMessage.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they cite privacy as a reason.
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Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year agoWell Google is arguably the big kid here 70% of all cell phones are android phones. Also, Google puts its apps/services on Apple devices. There’s no way to rewind time, change a variable or two, and then play it back to see how things change.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Come on. There isn’t anything near parity with the cross platforming of apps. Apple has a few (three of them are music apps) and I believe Google puts all or nearly all their apps on iOS.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
When did I say there was parity? I just pointed out they do create Android apps for some of their services.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By saying “apple puts their services” it implied to me that you were suggesting that apple actually put much of its inhouse software on Android, which isn’t the case. Not in the same way that saying “Google puts its services on iOS” is accurate because a great deal of Google’s software is available on iOS.
In our conversation who is saying anything about altruism? What I said was Google releases a lot of, in my opinion, incredibly useful software for free and then pays for it by selling ads. I feel like this is incredibly obvious and for me it’s a good deal because I like Google’s free services and I’d rather see ads about things I might actually be interested in than things I’m not interested in.
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org 1 year ago
If they were honest, they would cite “creating the illusion of superiority via systemic exclusion”
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Why be honest when you can lie and say it’s for someone’s benefit?
There probably are privacy implications, which makes it a good one.
dtrain@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s framed as if google is this generous corporation that’s all “Peace, love and Agnostic apps” rather than to farm data from a competitor’s users.
Google wants all the users data regardless of the platform they’re on.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google puts out a lot of free services: Gmail, maps, docs, sheets, voice, etc. It makes sense that they’re paying for those services some how.
Broadcast television is free and paid for with commercials. TV targeted the ads with the content of the show. Soap operas are called that because women typically watched them and women in those days bought the household supplies and that’s who advertised on those shows.
Google’s basically doing the same thing. They just have a different way of targeting the add. It’s a pretty open exchange.