Google's recent concessions to restrictive carrier demands, which are clearly helping the platform gain ground, show that the search giant is beginning to accept the realities of the market.

Google最近对运营商的让步很显然在帮助了平台的扩张，这显示出搜索巨头已开始接受市场现实。

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Germany can afford to make concessions on some of the demands from the UK, but it cannot afford to unpick the key parts of the balance of power agreed in the constitution in 2004.

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One answer is that they're not real demands, they're negotiating ploys, designed to drag more reasonable concessions out of the developed world.

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Still, Horton says, the Murrells have made some concessions along the way, especially during the worst part of the recession, when they eased their demands on franchisees to open new stores.

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