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.
how many billions will they have to pay this time, Sup Forums?
Grayson Cooper
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Owen Smith
they dropped that motto few years ago.
Aaron Butler
can you explain it like i'm an autistic web retard?
Chase Rogers
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.
Aiden Allen
you do know google is the world's most valuable brand right now and $5 billion is not much to them, right?
Andrew Hall
> trusting the EU > implying there's any decent alternative to Android
Luis Taylor
>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.
Dominic Ramirez
Fill in the boxes! By the time they're done, EU fill fine them for over $10 billion. KEK
The EU is literally the staging grounds for NWO takeover. Merkel is leading the goyim to slaughter.
Luis Cook
Said Israel's greatest ally
Camden White
There was a reason they donated so much to Obama. They ignored the antitrust violations.
Luis Hill
how is this allowed the eu is a communist shithole i hope google stops all services in the eu
Thomas Mitchell
>i hope google stops all services in the eu lol. you're a baka. please leave and never come back, summerfag.
Brandon Hall
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.
Adrian Sanchez
google is literally satan hitler
Angel Howard
t. corpo bootlicker
Connor Mitchell
>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
Jaxon Johnson
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.
Tyler Reed
lol... EU has tons on money and they're not in as much of a debt as the US, you retard.
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?
Joshua Allen
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John Nguyen
because if you don't control giant corporations desire to gain shekels at the cost of everything else you will get fucked over.
Parker Green
>it yuropoos begging big,strong american company for money for thier budget episode
Liam Morales
EU isnt one entity, you fucking nigger
Thomas Baker
>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
Samuel Martin
how does this happen?
Aiden Lee
>((((Schmidt)))) Everytime
Jace Brown
I hate that smug piece of shit so damn much.
Mason Miller
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.
Leo Moore
Good. I can't root my shit android and this fucking google search bar is a fucking eyesore
Kayden Allen
Buying a lagdroid in the first place lmao. Are you poor or what?
Matthew Gonzalez
>tfw no semite waifu
Gabriel Cox
>EU isnt one entity, you fucking nigger Ssssh... You'll hurt Merkel's feelings
Kevin Ross
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.
Jeremiah Wilson
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?
Cameron Perry
t. corpo bootlicker
Joshua Watson
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.
Leo Gray
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?
Jace Moore
>they aren't forcing anyone to use it. They are forcing carriers and handset makers to only include their apps and services.
Parker Garcia
Jewgle is going full mafia.
Christopher Smith
which is actually a good thing ( )
Ian Price
>which is actually a good thing ... says only a Jewgle shill. Forcing anything on anyone when you're a monopoly is illegal.
Brayden Howard
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.
Isaac Cook
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
Julian Taylor
>when you're a monopoly Never heard of apple iphones or windows phones, did you? Also
Adrian Ramirez
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
Logan Foster
nu gee truly has no spine, im surprised someone hasnt already posted a discord channel made for this thread
Christian Long
discord sucks, that is why.
Noah Rivera
EJew is jewer than JewSA. The latter hs its own mobile platforms at least.
Lincoln Green
>alternative to Android How about not using a smartphone? No one really needs a smartphone and it's just a tracking/surveillance device anyway.
Kevin Cruz
I get that google's revenue is fuckhuge but 5 billion should be a significant sum to any company.
Parker Reyes
What are they investigating w.r.t. scraping?
Jose Reed
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.
Jordan Gonzalez
Google's scraping various Euro news sites and presenting summaries on their site without compensation.
Lincoln Hernandez
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?
Alexander Brown
I don't see how's that a problem, when those news sites are all ads.
Ethan Mitchell
Most European tech companies that get big end up getting bought up by the American tech conglomerates.
Landon Reed
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.
Benjamin Sanchez
>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.
Sebastian Kelly
>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
Landon Martin
too many tabs open at once
Camden Young
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.
Noah Robinson
What's it 70-80% taxes? Absolute madness. But it works
Daniel Kelly
in US, many multi-billion dollar corporation pay no taxes and actually get subsidies!
Nathan Hernandez
This will teach the US that it can't get away with sabotaging VW and nordstream.
Jason Hall
Disgusting. Maybe america should be find for stealing all the corporations via its monopoly market
Wyatt Russell
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.
Asher Walker
What version are you using? you can just remove the searchbar widget on most.
Jace Thompson
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
Chase Perry
I see now why they got fined for $2.71billion. Well deserved.
Joshua Ross
>Well deserved
>advertising my product with my product is a bad thing
LOL
Tyler Torres
>tfw Communist Space Automation never ever
Nathan Powell
>how dare Google does what it wants on its own operating system, on its own search engine!
Luke Hughes
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.
Nicholas Johnson
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.
Leo Hill
>china Lel
Liam Baker
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.
Noah Edwards
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.
Kevin Morgan
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?
Levi Brown
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.
Joseph Bailey
>iPhones Shit OS >windows phones Hahaha
Sailfish > iOS > winshit. Since we're talking about non-android systems.
Mason Brown
They should do this to Microsoft every year.
Carson Brown
How come apple doesn't get sued for this as well? imovie, final cut pro, keynote, pages & numbers & everything iPhone? Serious question
Levi Young
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.
Henry Rodriguez
>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.
Aaron Ortiz
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
Julian Hill
They can cash it in their own accounts
William Sanchez
>eu not as corrupt as the us pfft. The Eu is only doing this because it's falling apart and needs the money.
Brandon Evans
>be eu >wrongthink >get arrested
Xavier Jenkins
If the money is coming out of Jewgle's pockets then I don't mind this one bit.
Robert Reyes
pls >Sailfishmasterrace
Carson Davis
Sup Forums
Samuel Ross
>implying microsoft's bing won't instantly take their place if google does that
Matthew Green
>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?