European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by cmsj on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @08:44AM (#17557814)

Samsung phones are very often dinged in reviews because they ship a confusing mix of Samsung apps that duplicate the functionality of Google apps. I wouldn't be very surprised at all if Samsung would prefer to just ship their Calendar/whatever app, or even entire phones that only contain their apps/services, but they can't make those choices.

Regarding the 75%, please bear in mind that that is across the total market, which covers a very broad range of price points. Apple may have ~25% share, but that is skewed almost entirely to the top end of the market. In the low end of the market, Android would be nearly 100%.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by hesarenu on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:49AM (#17559440)

So what you saying "one example - if you want to use Google services on one Android phone, you can't make a second Android phone that uses your own services" is wrong then?

Does anyone know what the contracts contain?

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by cmsj on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:58PM (#17560056)

No, it's not wrong. Samsung is allowed to add its own Calendar/Calculator/whatever apps, and their own App Store, but they are not allowed to remove Google's ones without dropping every non-AOSP Google app/service from every one of their android phones.

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