News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance. Parent comment

Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by charlesdm on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:56AM (#14644128)
That sounds horrible though. Another abomination in the making. The effort to align all those map providers is probably quite significant. Such a massive waste of efforts and engineering time.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:19AM (#14644289)
I don't think so. Google is actually in a perfect position to do that. They could just unilaterally announce they'll support other map providers if they conform to a specified Google API, and guess what, map providers will do it, forced simply by power of competition.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing domin... by orsenfelt on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:06PM (#14649968)
If I ran a mapping website I'd bend over backwards for a chance at that embedded sidebar Google spot. Everyone would.
[ Parent | on HN ]