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Well, Google is a dominant market force, even if it is dominant because it is simply that useful so that everybody has to use it.

Because of that dominance, it deserves, no, requires scrutiny much, much more than not being deterred innovation. The latter is a "nice thing", the former is a necessity. Sorry but if you're that big, that dominant, of course we're going to scrutinize your responsibilities. If that's going to mean less fancy features, sad but so be it, the alternative is letting Google abuse all that power unchecked!

edit: I think coldtea said it better (in this same subthread) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14645033



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