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I'm not saying it's right, but there's a chance Microsoft is feeling emboldened to get away with it based on Google's success steering search users to their own products.

In the beginning, it was just Microsoft.




Does Microsoft not have a competitive product on mobile devices? Hmmm.. wonder why.


That story's a lot more complicated, and a lot of it can be blamed on Evan Spiegel and Snap. https://www.youthhealthmag.com/articles/31188/20160109/snapc...

Interesting follow-up there is that Facebook, in lifting so much of Snapchat for use across Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger, has been giving Evan & team a pretty terrifying karmic kick in the rear... and though there might not be a connection here, Microsoft does own 1.~% of Facebook, after all.

Disclosure: own shares of SNAP; probably not selling soon (it either wins by chance or I write the whole company off as a loss). I don't exactly have the best opinion of the company.




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