European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case

Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by chmod775 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:28AM (#17558699)

This is just factually wrong.

Android is a separate software project that is developed separately from Google Play Services. The Android OS works perfectly without those installed.

There's no "Chrome, Google Search, and the Google Play Store" in the Android repository. Especially since Android is open source, and most of the latter APKs are not.

I suggest to actually have a look at the a android project before making claims like these. This page is a good place to start: https://source.android.com/setup/

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by cmsj on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:51AM (#17559454)

Android the project is open source and lacks those apps, but Android the consumer branded product without those apps is not very appealing to customers.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:14PM (#17559648)

I doubt that. Play store and maps are important. Having a specific browser and search, on top of hangouts, google+, slides, photos... not so important.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by pas on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:51AM (#17565174)

Maps are important, but you can use one of the many different map providers.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by AstralStorm on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:20PM (#17559707)

It is perfectly fine with Firefox, K9 Mail... Or Samsung Browser and Mail apps.

The Play Store is the one and only problem as the replacements are nowhere near close in functionality or popularity.

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