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Originally Posted by OmNom

Also, despite Googles size and revenue, they arent at all like Apple in terms of being power and money hungry. Every company is out to make money. But Google gives out its Android OS for FREE to phone companies, so Google doesnt really have that same money crazy appearance as Apple who overprices for their products.

I disagree. Although I agree with Google that general concepts shouldn't be allowed to be patented, you have to remember that Google is notorious for gathering personal information on people and going as far as invading privacy in order to mine data on users and their habits. Google's bottom line is primarily the delivery of ads, meaning that they are willing to walk over the privacy of their users in order to garner ad revenue. And they get a ton of ad revenue. So in some ways, Google is every bit as greedy as Apple is, they just go about acquiring their money in different ways.

In 2008, Google bought out another ad-delivery company and competitor called DoubleClick. This is something they shouldn't have been allowed to do, but unfortunately it happens a lot. Corporations often try to eliminate their competition in any way that they can, but for some reason, although scandals like price-fixing and patent trolling are considered anti-competitive, buyouts are generally seen as legitimate. Makes no sense.