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Originally Posted by BatPenguin View Post
And this is based on...what exactly? As the many tinfoil hats around here will tell you, Google's business is not charging for its services. You can worry about Google's size and influence and privacy and all that, but there's no examples of them charging for a service, all their basic stuff is free.

Google is in the advertising/information business. Whether or not their offerings will push makers of navigation software, paid e-mail services, office software, mobile OS's etc. out of business is irrelevant.They're not in it to make money in the traditional sense, they make their money elsewhere.
If they control a market, they CAN control pricing or features. I'm not so worried about price as I am competition. If we all had to use IE instead of Firefox, Maxthon, Avant, Safari, WebKit, etc, we would see less web and browsing innovation from competitiors. Choice is competition, and right now, Android will become a Google only space for navigation. NOT good, imo. In their quest to get more customer data, they're taking certain markets from the app development arena and keeping them for themselves.

That they've taken customers from app developers is just as bad. I find that pretty bad business for their developer relations. Pretty soon, Android will be all Google, and all the devs will look for alternative playgrounds. Symbian and WinMo, anyone?
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