And if it'd been Microsoft (or for that matter Apple) doing the blocking there would've been an enormous outpouring of indignation and scorn from the Open Source crowd. Suggesting otherwise is disingenuous.
> "But you're acting as if Google just blackholed orphans from getting food."
I disagree. My indignation is firmly rooted in Googles bare-faced hypocrisy. http://www.google.com/intl/en/takeaction/ This is hypocrisy. This is what Google want you to believe. Their behaviour suggest that this is marketing bullshit on their part.
From where I'm standing Google are essentially harming their own users for what seems like nothing more than malicious reasoning masked as T&C's. It is they and no-one else who are getting fucked in all of this. I couldn't give a shit about Microsoft. Do they deserve it? Yeah probably, karma and all of that. I do give a shit about the utter hypocrisy exhibited by Google and their fans however. The double standards on display in this and other threads on the 'net are astounding.
> "Also, Microsoft phone users could just open a web browser."
Indeed they could (funny, but when that was the response to the lack of Flash on iPhones, it was mocked...). Or Google could just stop being hypocrites and practice what they preach. We'll see snow in Hades first.
> "But you're acting as if Google just blackholed orphans from getting food."
I disagree. My indignation is firmly rooted in Googles bare-faced hypocrisy. http://www.google.com/intl/en/takeaction/ This is hypocrisy. This is what Google want you to believe. Their behaviour suggest that this is marketing bullshit on their part.
From where I'm standing Google are essentially harming their own users for what seems like nothing more than malicious reasoning masked as T&C's. It is they and no-one else who are getting fucked in all of this. I couldn't give a shit about Microsoft. Do they deserve it? Yeah probably, karma and all of that. I do give a shit about the utter hypocrisy exhibited by Google and their fans however. The double standards on display in this and other threads on the 'net are astounding.
> "Also, Microsoft phone users could just open a web browser."
Indeed they could (funny, but when that was the response to the lack of Flash on iPhones, it was mocked...). Or Google could just stop being hypocrites and practice what they preach. We'll see snow in Hades first.