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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:09PM (#22668201)
> They could build a cloud and then require any 3rd party apps that work with Facebook to use their cloud

That sounds like an antitrust investigation waiting to happen. (Or it should; that Google hasn't been murdered by prosecutors suggests that the system isn't working as it should)

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by the_watcher on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:38PM (#22668493)
Yea, this actually seems to fall pretty specifically into the Microsoft case.

AFAIK, Google does not require third parties working with Google to use GCP

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:28PM (#22669478)
> AFAIK, Google does not require third parties working with Google to use GCP

Oh no, I don't think so; I was thinking of their exploiting their search dominance to push Chrome.

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by folmar on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @01:10PM (#22676433)
That sounds like Firebase on Android.
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