So It's either worse case, they are actively lying to increase their investments rolling in, increasing their stock.
I also wonder if It's less evil than that, where they do believe it but are in the big tech sphere and are just so disconnected to how non-tech companies work.
I work in the insurance industry, and to remove people means every task they do would need an "AI layer to it" because as we know there is no LLM that is great at every task. More AI layers mean more points for error.
And there is no job here where It's okay to be confidently incorrect 1-5% of the time.
I'm in my mid 20s and semi grew up on the old internet, what was the point where tech companies become so James Bond villianish. I got into it because of the passionate people in the industry. I know they're still there, but I feel like old tech companies oozed enthusiasm and passion.
While I saw countries discussing the issue, none of them seemed to ask Google directly to only allow authorized third party apps.
That makes me think this is entirely a power move. If those countries had actually asked Google to step in and make phones safer, there are other ways to do that. And if they did explicitly request this particular solution, then why isn’t it being implemented only in those countries?
This is a software-based solution—just like Apple limits certain features to specific regions, Google could do the same and restrict it to the countries that require it.