Though Google alone has done at least ten thousand times more for decentralization than Bitcoin and nostr combined :-)
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Just curious in what way you think this is? They've decentralised their network and server infrastructure, but it's still controlled by them. Most of their services are basically walled gardens.
Oh .. long story .. the entire premise of google is to break the most impenetrable forts of centralization - take for example
- Internet Explorer with Chrome ( which btw is largely open source )
- iOS with Android ( again largely open)
- Mac And Windows - chromeOS ( which is essentially Linux)
- google FI to fight complete autonomy of AT&T and Verizon
- wearOS to counter watchOS .. practically free for the partners like Android
- wayMo to counter Tesla
- TPUs to counter nVidia GPUs
Google is makes centralized power into a binary choice and then opens up the floodgate for smaller players .. without google earth would be ..well still flat :-)
Besides the entire AI is based on transformers which is open source of google ..
Not even counting endless backend technologies.. like node ..