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Moving the goalposts

Posted Mar 5, 2013 0:54 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Moving the goalposts by man_ls
Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)

I'll freely admit my point isn't a strong one but google has many paying customers on android, although googles main customers are the advertisers, not handset users and androids main function is to prevent google from sliding into irrelevance, like yahoo.

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Android

Posted Mar 5, 2013 11:01 UTC (Tue) by Tobu (subscriber, #24111) [Link]

Google also gets plenty of data: geolocation (how people move, plus supporting data like the locations of antennas and hotspots) and app installs, browsing histories for Chrome users, app usage for the ones that show their ads. Account integration enables apps to start sharing almost invisibly.