Gregory's Server@gamey @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid In Europe, we have nothing to counter the big Internet corporations.
That's why this game is dangerous.
Stepping on the toes of the companies without having an alternative is simply stupid.
In the long term, we run the risk that big business will only be done in the U.S. and China, and Europe will finally sink into insignificance.
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 @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid (2/2) Other sectors like hardware have very heavy competition from the US and Asia and won't dry up, especially since the US made China a lot less attractive to do business in. I also don't think we should call it over regulation unless it actually damages consumers, all market regulations limit business to some extend and the thread you draw there (at least to me) isn't realistic atm! @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid To me your point here is a neo liberal excuse to underregulate certain buisnesses and one of the driving factors behind even bigger big tech. @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill I can't argue against that but I still don't think the DMA is dangerous over regulation in any way and I also think Huawai could be really dangerous to Google if they mess with AOSP and leave the EU market at the same time. @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill Nothing will make the current version of AOSP closed source and if China and the EU are effected that's easily big enough of a market to continue that work even if Google abandoned all of us! (Which is highly unlikely in my opinion) @IzzyOnDroid @gamey @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill Literally sent from a degoogled custom rom'ed pixel 2xl. I look forward to a future I don't need to do this. @bill88t @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill I fundamentally agree with you but I also think your solutions are too easy, Google dose have the ultimate control over AOSP and even they struggle to maintain it. @bill88t @IzzyOnDroid @th_willenbrink @JessTheUnstill There is a big difference between all current projects and a seperately maintained branch of Android and they have no obligations to continue AOSP but as I pointed out in another comments that would also threaten China and both markets together are more than enough to justify a seperate mobile OS based on current AOSP so I don't think Google could afford to do anything like it. |
@th_willenbrink @bill88t @JessTheUnstill @IzzyOnDroid (1/2) You aren't wrong in concept but I think you definitely are in practice. The major way those companies keep their position is that their product are the users so more users equals more viable and there are small alternatives to many if not all of their services, they just aren't viable. Furthermore something like Android with very little competition isn't controlled by Google so it will continue to be available.