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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by cageface on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:09PM (#17561684)
Who is going to use Android with no app store and a bunch of crappy bundled apps? The answer is nobody. Look how far Amazon has been able to push that with all their engineering and marketing muscle.

Apple is a niche player only because they clung to their margins like a bag of heroin and let cheap Android phones eat their lunch. If it weren't for Android they would have zero serious competition.

I find myself in the very odd position today of having for the first time some sympathy with the Brexiters.

Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by pjmlp on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:12PM (#17561708)
The same people that were already using J2ME and Symbian apps before iPhone became a thing.

Even Google used to have maps versions that targeted those platforms, before they went with Android.

Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by cageface on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @04:15PM (#17561732)
I.E. nobody that can afford even the cheapest iPhone. The world has changed since J2ME mattered.