Don’t be evilDo the right thingDo no harmLine must go up
Don’t be evil (to the shareholders)
Do the right thing (for our stock value)
Do no harm (to our profit margins)
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Line must go up (before it comes down) ((wishful thinking))
Make everyone but “us” poor, so they can’t afford to resist. Just start with marginalized populations (bc that is who america truly is deep down).
Divide and conquer
Do harm others before others harm you
Do all the harm
“Well, you have to let us do a little harm.” ¯_(ツ)_/¯
do a little arm
Well nobody saw that coming
/s
Do no harm (to quarterly earnings)
Glad I abandoned Google 7 years ago when they made it obvious what they were really all about. I do miss my customized Android phones but it’ll be a frozen day in hell before I give them another cent.
Genuine question: do they make money from AOSP being used on third party devices? Obviously they get revenue via the Play store, but you can avoid that by either installing something like graphine or an alternative store (Fdroid, Amazon, etc).
My understanding is there’s a licensing fee for another company to say they have an ‘android’ phone.
That part doesn’t matter to me. I ran de-Googled custom ROMs on my phones for many years, including cyanogenmod and later Lineage, only to find out they were tracking all of us against our will (and device settings) all along. That was the last straw for me.
Same reason suckerberg went full elon. It’s the gold rush of corporate greed with a conman at the helm
Well, Gemini 2.0 is bad. Flash seems to have regressed to be worse than my local 32Bs, and pro fails some prompts 1.5 gets.
Maybe they are trying to compensate?
