Friday, March 9, 2012

Jumping on the restraint of trade

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has been pressuring applications and mobile game developers to use its costlier in-house payment service, Google Wallet, as the Internet search giant tries to emulate the financial success of Apple Inc's iOS platform.
Google warned several developers in recent months that if they continued to use other payment methods - such as PayPal, Zong and Boku - their apps would be removed from Android Market, now known as Google Play, according to developers, executives and investors in mobile gaming and payment sectors.
Google and ATT, trying to restrict how we generate money flows to their shareholders. Here is how the meeting went:

Google CEO to Shareholders: We can make you poor and do it using Wiz Bang spiffy software
Shareholders: Sounds great, how much of the money flow from subscribers to me can you stop
Google CEO: Damn near all of it if you let us hire more whiz bang money flow stopper programmers.

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