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@gnome ha ha ha people believed the do no evil bullshit because they thought new corporations were going to be somehow better than the old corporations when clearly funding for the new ones came from the guys worked at old ones who thought weren't being evil enough already. Even right now when Gemini is freely used & adopted by masses though Google search, very little criticism of that, but dumping on copilot is fashionable as if this is still 2001 and M$ is somehow only game in town.

@htpcnz @gnome

It's been more than 10 years since 2015 when Google changed course from "Don't be evil".

The change inherently implies that Google could be evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil

Don't be evil - Wikipedia

@gnome It's going to become normal to own several devices, so the era of the heavy metal-frame mobile is coming to an end.
@gnome How exactly did they land on stealing android from the world? πŸ€” "Intellectual Property" "law" as it stands is currently seeming like a rich mans ploy under capitali$m to keep the poor from rising on shoulders as the rich themselves have done.