My guess it was more about Google not wanting to get into it at all. In general, they view all apps/content as potential revenue until it’s proven to be bad for revenue. 

It has to be a trivial amount though, no? Nothing close worth the bad press I can’t believe.

Anyone have an idea why Google was picking this hill in the first place? The linked article from BI didn’t have much explanation.

Please actually read the article... Just this one time. 

Ive needs to retire. He doesn’t have the ghost of Jobs pushing him around anymore and yet, increasingly boring design. 

I suspect we’re at the logical end of Jony Ive’s interpretation of Dieter Rams’ take on minimalism. Everything that can be removed has been removed and all imperfections smoothed away. Maybe Apple needs someone with a different vision to reinvigorate the brand.

Yes, the implication is that it’s hardware independent*.

Ah, the sweet, sweet sound of unearned privilege being revoked.

In my experience, nothing makes a misogynist, half-assing dude go from zero to sputtering Kavanaugh than a woman finally holding him accountable at work.

A few other choice nuggets from the Outside article:

Yup. More specifically, by a single member of the club. There was only one complainant in the grievance filed against her--a guy whose main complaint was that she punished him on the multiple occasions that he refused to do his job. smh. 

So basically - the woman hired to replace the guy fired for enabling a He Man Woman Hater’s club is harassed out of her job by the He Man Woman Hater’s club. 

Actually blocking kicks ass. I have no personal responsibility to sit here and stare at shit that sucks or I don’t like. This “BUT FREE SPEECH MEANS U HAVE TO LET ME YELL AT U? DEBATE ME COWARD!” bullshit is exactly what is giving rise to extremist right wing horseshit on the internet in the first place.

This works pretty good too.

This illegitimate motherfucker just physically threatened the majority of Americans that disapprove of him.

You’re more likely to get murdered by a white supremacist than a communist, but whatever helps that gnawing insecurity I guess.

Though Beck told the Baltimore Sun that she does “feel kind of nervous about working with the right wing because they have opposed women’s bodily autonomy, and lesbians’ sovereignty,” it has not stopped her from forming an alliance with Republicans.

TERFs are conservatives. Happy International Women’s Day.

I thought we had stopped calling them TERFs and were going over to FARTs - Feminism Appropriating Radical Transphobes