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Except that google's "standardized, "packaged" food is just as unsafe or even less safe than the hobby cooks', and they're only using "food safety" as a pretense to capture the market and hold clientele hostage.
And this change has also been preceded by buying out every other restaurant chain in town, except for the "Apple Restaurants," which are already a walled garden, which Google is now trying to emulate even though most of its user base came to it specifically to avoid Apple's business model.
And there are a few other smaller chains based on Google's standards, but they're considered niche and don't all support every feature ("sorry, no ATMS"). Also, since most of their equipment comes from Google, Google likely has a killswitch and can cut off their stoves and refrigerators at any time.
It's clearly an anti-trust issue, but since Apple has already set the precedent and the US is pro-corporation and anti-consumer, everyone is kinda just screwed.
The point is that Google's head chef can come out and shit on your plate, and if you don't like it then it sucks to suck because there aren't really any viable alternatives.
as much as i despise microsoft, at least windows phone was competition.
Ironically, apparently it got shut down for ostensibly being too monopolistic...