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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Highlight

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the classic business sense… they are not trying to make a profit on Android.… They want to take any layer that lives between themselves and the consumer and make it free (or even less than free).… In essence, they are not just building a moat; Google is also scorching the earth for 250 miles around the outside of the castle to ensure no one can approach it.

— Shoshana Zuboff

Replicated under Fair Use from The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff. (Pg. 134)