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21. alrighty then. i guess they have complete moral standing to complain about others then.

Reply to Xithras (Reply #20)

Wed Jun 24, 2015, 03:32 PM

Jun 2015

not hypocritical in the least.

i don't disagree with you that they've been surpassed by others; like i said, i'm not defending samsung, and we've all heard how far google has strayed from its original "don't be evil" mantra, and so on.

but that hardly takes away from the irony of them complaining about the practices of others while we all know how they built their own empire.

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