News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case. Parent comment

Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by ktosobcy on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:14AM (#17559164)
Which would allow google to gain dominance in the mobile market... NOT. Google/Android won because it was very open and flexible, but the moment they started to dominate they started to push their agenda on OEMs users…
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by ummonk on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:46AM (#17559405)
Okay, now I am starting to see the argument against Google. Essentially, that they captured a lot of the market with "free" but are increasingly using the terms that come alongside this "free" to bully other manufacturers now that they're locked in with "free Android!".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by mattigames on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:59AM (#17559538)
Yeah, Samsumg should have created their own OS, I'm sure that would have played really well for both companies... NOT.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by ktosobcy on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @07:07AM (#17608341)
They tried, but then Google had "free OS" that "everyone used" so it was almost impossible to make a dent in the google-verse. And now when they killed virtually any competition they are pushing their agent.

Recently KaiOS was gaining traction and what did google? Virtually bought their presence/dominance there… sorry "supported project".

[ Parent | on HN ]