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Comment by shriphani | Hacker News Reader

Your problem as a consumer is that someone's actively innovating 50% of the cellphone experience for free (hardware is not in Google's control)?

I am really confused how giving something for free went from being nice to "anticompetitive jerk".

Are you saying that you will reject a product because it is free?

edit : wrong punctuation used

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Oh so Google is offering stuff free because it's being nice! Very funny. I guess MS was also then being nice by offering IE for free to everyone? They did it because they were nice, not because they wanted to have everyone who offered non-free alternatives marginalized and killed, right?

As a consumer I don't mind free stuff. Engaging legislation so you can keep charging for something that is free sounds wrong to me (from a consumer perspective).

I mean no one complains about WalMart right ? It is convenient and people have to muster some other kinds of emotion to be against it (patriotism, low wages and exploitation etc).

I am glad you brought Walmart as an example. We soon will have a country full of Walmarts where local stores have no place, which looks the same everywhere you go. Walmart after Walmart. It's all cheap there!

Similarly we just may soon have a country when Google is the only software company to work for. Because everyone believes all software should be free and ad-based, and because Google is dominating the ads business.

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