Google putting the finishing touches om the ITA software acquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
But oddly closed google trips, which frankly was decent. Google sometimes seems like incoherent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITA_Software
But oddly closed google trips, which frankly was decent. Google sometimes seems like incoherent.
No one in the class could really argue against it because as far as monopolies that Google could possibly create, that's pretty minor. A decade later, almost everyone seems to have forgotten that Google did it.
That’s really goofy reasoning. Just because google is huge and could do much more evil doesn’t mean that a small amount of evil (destroying the airline itinerary quote market) is ok. Is that what you meant to say?
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The Trips app may have been nice for having it all in one place, but it definitely wasn't a necessary part of the experience.
The fact I use Gmail allows them to make Google maps and Google assistant better products than say bing maps and Cortana, because bing maps and Cortana could never get access to those reservation emails which make the whole thing work.
Such monopolies should be illegal - everything should be sharable via an API. Sadly those seem to have gone out of fashion with things like Cambridge Analytica.
For example, if I extract OGuth2 app information from Thunderbird, then I could theoretically make another user authenticate against Thunderbird's app and then ex-filtrate all of their Gmail data.
Gmail API is blocked for purely political reasons. E.G. real-time delivery of e-mails which is not accessible through non-Gmail clients.
Nobody gets promoted for maintaining a service.
So old services die because nobody wants to look after them. That won't change till Google reworks its employee incentives.