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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by keerthiko on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:49AM (#17558896)
Why is that a shocker? They own google.com and they want to upsell another product, and aren't forcing it upon users or vendors. This seems like normal/standard business practice. Bundling IE with Windows was not the problem, but forcing PC vendors to only sell with Windows installed, and aggressively forcing IE to be the default browser was.

On the other hand, building "web" apps that only run on chrome, that was a shocker for me.

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by AlphaSite on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:31AM (#17559305)
It’s literally the definition of leveraging a monopoly to enter a market.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by unit91 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:54AM (#17558956)
> On the other hand, building "web" apps that only run on chrome, that was a shocker for me.

Wow, I wasn't aware of this. Do you recall any examples?

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by mrguyorama on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:13AM (#17559160)
There was a solid half a year where google hangouts does not work on current versions of Firefox. It claims that Firefox support is in development, but the actuality of it is that hangouts was deprecated for hangouts meet, which does support firefox
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by keerthiko on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @12:01PM (#17559558)
Inbox, hangouts video calls, google earth, off the top of my head, spent 6months+ being chrome-only. H/o video calls over a year (just a few months ago became firefox compatible).
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by javver on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:31AM (#17559304)
At least the web version of Google Earth is like that.
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