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cowpigyesterday at 5:02 PM0 repliesview on HN

Their business model revolves around people to choose to pay them for products, which aligns them with customer interests on a fundamental level. They have to work within those constraints when they engage in lock-in chicanery

Most of the other big tech companies make their revenue from other companies paying them to leverage the influence they have over their users. So they are not constrained in the same way.

I believe that most Googlers are pretty aligned with the principles of the HN crowd, but Google the machine is not.