Re:SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Goog...
by 8ytecoder on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:14PM
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There’s also another bad side effect of Google. Google makes and gives away stuff for free and one of the reasons they do it is because they run a lean operation. They don’t provide any kind of support. Let’s say someone want to start a new company that provides all the same features of Google and provide solid support - there’s no way they can do it for free. Or even if it’s a reasonable price, people are going to pick free anyway. Except those of us who care. Just the fact Google and Facebook gives it away from free, in a sense, kills any possible paid service in the domains they operate. IMHO that qualifies as anti-competition and anti-trust. But the laws aren’t designed for this scenario at all.
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Re:SIM swap horror story: I've lost decades of data and Goog...
by bestnameever on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @01:06AM
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> kills any possible paid service in the domains they operate.
I can think of paid services that compete in the domains google operates in. Fastmail is an easy one.