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Originally Posted by ApK
Google became the Goliath it is by giving away a bunch services to users (and monetizing the resultant data*) and later by creating a free and open operating system for phones that gave users a lot more freedom and choice than competing systems.
Then, instead of continuing that model (which is still hugely profitable, I wager) they started taking away free features, removing much of that freedom, and locking down that OS, undoing many of the things that made them better than the competition and got them where they were.
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The only problem with that, is that I still use Google the same way I always did. These so called "evil" changes haven't taken anything away from me.
I am quite invested in the Google infrastructure, to boot (email, calendar, contacts, Google One, etc...). On phone, tablets, and PCs.
No complaints about the free and paid-for services I get from them. But as mentioned ... I think in-app purchases are for suckers. I don't play that game. So maybe that's where the difference lies. *shrug*