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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by datalist on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:12PM (#17562102)
And yet there was competition.

It is similar to today, respectively we have even less choice, we have two platforms, out of which one is mostly a lifestyle company and has a minor market share of ~20%, whereas the second is dominating the market at ~80%

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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by datalist on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:21PM (#17562170)
And no, the web barely mattered in the mid to late 90s. That was the time when it was still nice there ;)
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by cageface on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:50PM (#17562362)
That was the first dot com boom. Are you seriously trying to argue the web didn’t matter at that point? It was all about the web.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by datalist on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @05:55PM (#17562397)
The web was just slowly emerging at that point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage#/media/F...

15% vs 80% these days. And thats the "developed world", globally it was around 2%.

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