Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr...
by reitanqild on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:37AM
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> Google wasn't considered a bad actor until then they were.
The alternative (where they are considered a bad actor before they were) seems a lot worse ;-)
I think EU might even have cut them a good slack here based on their previous status as good guys.
> and less "suspiciously convenient transfer of large sums of money."
In a EU perspective I think we'll find this doesn't matter much to them.
Google wasn't considered a bad actor until then they were.
> the old Microsoft here - definitely a bad actor - getting rid of it seems to have been refreshing even for Microsoft shareholders.
The old Microsoft deserved everything they got and then some. But even then, it would have been nice for the penalties to be more "actually effective in increasing competition in PC desktop operating systems" and less "suspiciously convenient transfer of large sums of money."