blind3rdeye

Google has teams of highly paid expert engineers who's entire job is to maintain and develop youTube. What do you think is more likely:

1. Google's engineers were unable to tell that performance in Firefox is degraded by their changes.
2. Google sees it as advantageous to disadvantage their competitors - including Firefox. And although they might not be able to do it deliberately, for legal reasons, they can still do it by introducing platform specific changes and strategically neglecting to make it work properly.

Ah, but if you use the rules BODMSA (or PEDMSA) then you can follow the letter order strictly, ignoring the equal precedence left-to-right rule, and you still get the correct answer. Therefore clearly we should start teaching BODMSA in primary schools. Or perhaps BFEDMSA. (Brackets, named Functions, Exponentiation, Division, Multiplication, Subtraction, Addition). I'm sure that would remove all confusion and stop all arguments. ... Or perhaps we need another letter to clarify whether implicit multiplication with a coefficient and no symbol is different to explicit multiplication... BFEIDMSA or BFEDIMSA. Shall we vote on it?

Apple's app store may be a problem, but saying "someone else is also doing something bad" doesn't mean what Google is doing isn't bad & illegal.

You're unlikely to be in conversation with hundreds of millions of people at a time; or even thousands of people. Conversations happen with just a handful of people. So those platforms with billions of people perhaps allow for some ultra-niche subgroups, but otherwise are just providing a lot of low-value noise with the additional people.

Should be scolding latte slamming layoffs.

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Of course they value it! They can make a tidy sum through its sale.

Google has been doing this kind of thing for years, to strangle their competition. For example, back when Windows Phone existed, Google went deliberately out of their way to cripple youTube, and maps. Apparently google will do anything they can to create lock-in and faux loyalty.

Google are completely evil. Here we're talking about them using their popular products as weapons against competitors in unrelated areas. But also have a history of copying products made by others then using advertising strength to promote their version over the original. And if that somehow doesn't work... they buy out the competitors. Both youTube and google maps are examples of this.

Maybe so. But at the same time there are a lot of 10 mins videos with 1 paragraph worth of useful information in them... so I guess the argument cuts both ways.

"Exclusive", at least the forth version of this story I've seen today.

So apparently having consumer-friendly laws does in fact lead to better products. Cool.

Perhaps the USA and other countries should follow the EU's good example on this.