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Re:EU hits Google with second antitrust charge by kuschku on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:36PM (#11535634)
> but you can always pull a Cyanogenmod and ship a phone without those apps installed.

That’s exactly what you can’t. Google only allows you to ship Google Apps on one of your devices if you ship it on all.

Which is the most important part the EC complains about.

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Re:EU hits Google with second antitrust charge by euyyn on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @01:29PM (#11536093)
Can't you just have two subcompanies, one that ships devices with Google apps and one that ships them without? Contracts signed by one of them shouldn't be able to bind the other, no?
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Re:EU hits Google with second antitrust charge by justJanne on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @01:36PM (#11536153)
In theory, yes, in practice, Google can terminate the contract whenever they want – so they just would terminate the contract with the first company, regardless if the second company is actually the same legal entity.
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