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Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report (nypost.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Ashtear@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just spinning off Android would shake up map software. It's how they get traffic and other data.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Many apps for Android rely on Google Play Services which I don't know exactly what it's doing but collecting data is a good bet.

Do we end up with worse maps then?

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 0 points 3 months ago

By my understanding google play services is basically just shared libraries and APIs for doing stuff and not as tied into Google specifically as its name might suggest