GOOGLE is getting BTFO again!!!

This time there will be another MASSIVE fine but for Android monopoly abuse.

>EU antitrust regulators have appointed a panel of experts to give a second opinion on their case against Google's Android mobile operating system, two people familiar with the matter said, as they weigh another record fine against the company.

>Assuming the panel agrees with the initial case team's conclusions, it could pave the way for the European Commission to issue a decision against Google by the end of the year.

Hhahahaa... fuck Google! They managed to bribe their way out of FTC investigations but EU is not as corrupt as US. These evil fuckers deserve to get fucked.

reuters.com/article/us-eu-google-antitrust-exclusive-idUSKBN19Q1RU

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fortune.com/2017/02/02/google-tops-apple-brand-value/
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how many billions will they have to pay this time, Sup Forums?

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they dropped that motto few years ago.

can you explain it like i'm an autistic web retard?

EU fined google $2.7 Billion recently for search manipulation. This time they're going after them for abuse of Android monopoly and for demanding that carriers cannot replace any of the google apps/services. It will be another massive fine.

They're also investigating them for a bunch of other shit too.

you do know google is the world's most valuable brand right now and $5 billion is not much to them, right?

> trusting the EU
> implying there's any decent alternative to Android

>you do know google is the world's most valuable brand right now
That's Apple.

>and $5 billion is not much to them, right?
Do you even know what their profits are? And this fine also means they'll have to change business practices too. It's not that easy to write this off.

Fill in the boxes!
By the time they're done, EU fill fine them for over $10 billion.
KEK

>EU is not as corrupt as US

>That's Apple.
fortune.com/2017/02/02/google-tops-apple-brand-value/
whatever, take your straw man argument somewhere else.

Where's the US antitrust?

Thank you based EU.

>EU is not as corrupt as US

The EU is literally the staging grounds for NWO takeover. Merkel is leading the goyim to slaughter.

Said Israel's greatest ally

There was a reason they donated so much to Obama. They ignored the antitrust violations.

how is this allowed
the eu is a communist shithole
i hope google stops all services in the eu

>i hope google stops all services in the eu
lol. you're a baka. please leave and never come back, summerfag.

I think google should ignore it and block all traffic from EU for one day and make a website that shows all the people how it would be without google.
If you use their software or services then that is your decision. If they want to show their own services (for example in the shopping search) then that is completely OK in my book because you use google. Use it or fucking do not.
Also same with android. You are using a google-phone with google-os and google-services. Are you really stupid enough to complain about google-related things while buying google-related things?
The court should really rule in favour of google.

google is literally satan hitler

t. corpo bootlicker

>EU is not as corrupt as US
more like EU isn't as solvent as US and they need to constantly shake down anyone making money

I think they should block all their services from the EU.

The EU will be free from google, and will use alternate services, causing google to take a massive blow. The stock price will plummet, and google will no longer be the defacto standard in online advertising, finally causing the 'track and trace' system we have to collapse.

It'd be great. Uncuck humanity.

lol... EU has tons on money and they're not in as much of a debt as the US, you retard.

check this shit out:
usdebtclock.org/

Actually I don't even have a smartphone or use any google-services except google.com search.
What I mean is, would you be okay if your company got so fucking big, that other people would tell you how to operate the devices you created?

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because if you don't control giant corporations desire to gain shekels at the cost of everything else you will get fucked over.

>it yuropoos begging big,strong american company for money for thier budget episode

EU isnt one entity, you fucking nigger

>for demanding that carriers cannot replace any of the google apps/services.
to be fair, google is doing them a favor by stopping carriers replacing stock apps with their ad-ridden shit with security holes

how does this happen?

>((((Schmidt))))
Everytime

I hate that smug piece of shit so damn much.

the judgment is sound in principle.
apple is only exempt for now due to smaller market share, but i can imagine them looking hard at them.
for google, beyond paying the fine, this won't be a huge deal - initial set up will just include selection options the same way msft did back in the day.
for apple, however, it would fundamentally compromise their walled garden approach.

Good. I can't root my shit android and this fucking google search bar is a fucking eyesore

Buying a lagdroid in the first place lmao. Are you poor or what?

>tfw no semite waifu

>EU isnt one entity, you fucking nigger
Ssssh... You'll hurt Merkel's feelings

As much as I like to see Google get fucked and big corporations being restricted. The fact that this not allowed is such kinda bullshit when you think about it.
It's their god damn system, they aren't forcing anyone to use it.

Still makes me happy though.

The manipulation of search results fine I get, but I don't understand the monopoly wit Android one. Is Google bribing or forcing phone manufactures to put Android on their devices?

t. corpo bootlicker

I don't think it's possible that you are using the term straw man argument correctly. He is not misrepresenting your claim, he saying you are wrong. Regardless of his rightness, I don't see him attacking a straw man.

I just bought it for fun. $50 at the time(got ripped off) Why do I need to watch movies and play music on my phone when I've got a computer?
Less then 4 hours of battery life. What are you? Retarded?

>they aren't forcing anyone to use it.
They are forcing carriers and handset makers to only include their apps and services.

Jewgle is going full mafia.

which is actually a good thing
( )

>which is actually a good thing
... says only a Jewgle shill.
Forcing anything on anyone when you're a monopoly is illegal.

And those carriers and handset makers aren't forced to use Android.

I know why we need things like this, people are absolutely retarded and the concept of voting with your wallet is a concept most people are unfamiliar with(god damn how fucking sweet would the world be if people did?). But it's still kinda bullshit.

i guess the people defending google are fine with the coming abolishment of net neutrality in the US, after all, its their service and they can set whatever conditions they want

>when you're a monopoly
Never heard of apple iphones or windows phones, did you?
Also

they are not forcing shit

samsung has its own store and apps by default, should they be sued too? not every manufacturer has the capacity to have its own infrastructure like googles in place.

while I agree on the search manipulation EU is being just (((greedy))) this time

nu gee truly has no spine, im surprised someone hasnt already posted a discord channel made for this thread

discord sucks, that is why.

EJew is jewer than JewSA. The latter hs its own mobile platforms at least.

>alternative to Android
How about not using a smartphone? No one really needs a smartphone and it's just a tracking/surveillance device anyway.

I get that google's revenue is fuckhuge but 5 billion should be a significant sum to any company.

What are they investigating w.r.t. scraping?

Can confirm. Each carrier and manufacturer has a tendency of modifying the OS in their own retarded way, thus you need to look for undocumented APIs for that particular carrier.

Google's scraping various Euro news sites and presenting summaries on their site without compensation.

With so many regulations no wonder there are no innovation coming out of Europe.

Apple, Amazon, Xiaomi, Alibaba... Can you even name one European tech company? Where's the Silicon Valley or Shenzhen of Europe?

Literally the only tech news you hear coming out of there is how they're suing American companies out of billions of dollars. Why even do business in that shithole?

I don't see how's that a problem, when those news sites are all ads.

Most European tech companies that get big end up getting bought up by the American tech conglomerates.

If you ran a site and google made it so people don't have to click on your site to read it, you'd be pissed off too. Google's basically using your hard work to keep people on their site.

>Most European tech companies that get big end up getting bought up by the American tech conglomerates.
Chinks had it right... they just blocked all the american companies and developed their own tech. Now they're not dependent on Zuckerberg, Page, Brin and rest of the amerijuden.

>Carriers are allowed to fill Android with legitimate bloatware apps and it's fine
>Google uses Play Music as the default player, which can be changed and even disabled, in their OWN product, which THEY built, and somehow that warrants a massive fucking fine
Fuck the EU

too many tabs open at once

Well, some of it, like in Sweden for example, which at least used to be(not sure anymore) one of the biggest IT countries in Europe just has such a fucking terrible socialist business climate that nobody wants to actually own a business here.

What's it 70-80% taxes? Absolute madness. But it works

in US, many multi-billion dollar corporation pay no taxes and actually get subsidies!

This will teach the US that it can't get away with sabotaging VW and nordstream.

Disgusting. Maybe america should be find for stealing all the corporations via its monopoly market

Not anymore it don't. The whole country is crashing.

>guberment have no money to spend because too much welfare to focus on
>gotta squeeze out more money with taxes
>business sector struggles because it's just too fucking expensive to operate here
>less guberment money, yet more welfare expenses
>now we can't pay teachers so education is tanking, can't pay hospital staff so now the healthcare is in shambles, can't afford to build new houses so now there's a housing crisis, can't afford to pay police so now police are in shambles
>can afford to pay 2.5 million to "Swedish" students in the radical Islamic University of Madinah in fucking Saudi Arabia for some mongoloid reason

Socialism. Not even once.

What version are you using? you can just remove the searchbar widget on most.

I've tried it. It doesn't even act as a widget. Its just locked their. I've got a Vodafone vdf200 I think its obscure in other countries but a budget phone created by vodacom. Or major phone airtime thingy(Carrier?) In South Africa

I see now why they got fined for $2.71billion. Well deserved.

>Well deserved

>advertising my product with my product is a bad thing

LOL

>tfw Communist Space Automation never ever

>how dare Google does what it wants on its own operating system, on its own search engine!

Too busy sueing european companies.
The google lawsuits are also only a answer helmed by germany for the usa sueing german companies for roughly 20 billion.

How come the EU is the only one suing Google while China doesn't give a shit and makes their own Android copycat shit? Are Europoors really that incompetent? Even Russia managed to make their own search engine without blocking Google. EU is shit, man.

>china
Lel

What's with all these butthut jews ITT?

You faggots don't belong here if you support the botnet, go back to whatever shitty site you came from.

Europoors are being out innovated by China and Russia. Seriously, fining google for anti-competitiveness? Russia and China don't give a fuck and just make their own clone. The EU should be ashamed of themselves.

even if 5 billion dollars was 0.00001% of google's budgest it's still 5 fucking billion dollars

do you have any idea how much stuff they can do with that shit?

Looks unlikely that EU is going to get the full "bill" from the UK it wants (60 billion or something)
It needs this money or it will collapse soon (sooner anyway)
So I think they are going for other sources of easy money. Fine a few corps who'll pay just to move it along.

>iPhones
Shit OS
>windows phones
Hahaha

Sailfish > iOS > winshit. Since we're talking about non-android systems.

They should do this to Microsoft every year.

How come apple doesn't get sued for this as well? imovie, final cut pro, keynote, pages & numbers & everything iPhone? Serious question

They don't have a monopoly or near monopoly.

If they get a bigger piece you can bet your ass they will, they are already getting sued over other shit.

>How come apple doesn't get sued for this as well? imovie, final cut pro, keynote, pages & numbers & everything iPhone? Serious question
They have a monopoly in NOTHING. You can't sue someone for abusing monopoly and antitrust whey they're not in it.

It is ethically wrong and probably illegal for the EU to bully 10B€ out of Google, but my God if it's reassuring to know that they're not the single most powerful thing on the planet.

Also it's always good to see Americans getting cucked by our superior culture and social infrastructure

They can cash it in their own accounts

>eu not as corrupt as the us
pfft. The Eu is only doing this because it's falling apart and needs the money.

>be eu
>wrongthink
>get arrested

If the money is coming out of Jewgle's pockets then I don't mind this one bit.

pls
>Sailfishmasterrace

Sup Forums

>implying microsoft's bing won't instantly take their place if google does that

>sailfish
Never heard about this but it seems fucking amazing.

>Sailfish can run most android applications...the user can switch between them on the fly.

Does this mean I can run this on a raspberry pi and still be able to use android apps?