• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s cyclical. They’re re-entering their shithead phase.

    Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. The got smacked with those EU antitrust lawsuits and they reset back to Embrace, and started participating in open-source again. Then they started extending by doing shit like buying GitHub and adding even more cool shit to it. Now they’re entering in extinguish phase where they’re doing shit like making it difficult to change default browser, and integrating all their services together without the ability to integrate 3rd parties.

    They’ll (hopefully) get smacked with another EU antitrust lawsuit and reset soon.

    • jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I really would like them to go back to being the cool weird uncle, not the cousin everyone is forced to play with at family gatherings.