Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypassing the Play Store

Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by 628C6l0 on Friday August 10, 2018 @02:19PM (#17735631)

That's just the art of writing headlines. How else do they generate online conversation except by stating it in a obviously flawed way provoking people like you to point out the flaw and people with a penchant for "charity" to come to their defense, and so on and so forth?

Why are we still falling for this crap?

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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by solarkraft on Friday August 10, 2018 @03:22PM (#17736067)

I have never thought about it like this. Thanks and please keep pointing it out!

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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by uvatbc on Friday August 10, 2018 @08:42PM (#17737656)

> Why are we still falling for this crap?

We fall for this because a subset of us has been provoked to point out the obvious flaw in the headline or the summary and another subset has been provoked into defending the part that isn't flawed.

I alternated between feeling like this was a question worth answering and feeling like a dick for answering this with your own words.

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Re:Google will lose $50M or more in 2018 from Fortnite bypas... by 628C6l0 on Friday August 10, 2018 @09:04PM (#17737737)

I mean, it was a rhetorical question, which by definition is a question asked not to elicit an answer but to make a point.

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