Re:The European Commission versus Android
by aembleton on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:52AM
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Restricting to just Europe: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/europe...
IEMobile is ahead of Firefox!
Well, on my LOS+microG device I use Firefox, but my apps use SystemView and that's basically Chrome (which skews these stats). By using Firefox I use two different rendering engines, increasing my attack surface.
Re:The European Commission versus Android
by candiodari on Friday July 20, 2018 @09:29AM
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I wonder what the user/developer experience would be on such a device. Worse than Samsung would be my guess (and that's a disaster).
Explain? I haven't used Samsung since SGS3, a flagship device which only got updates for 1 year.
Re:The European Commission versus Android
by lern_too_spel on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:45AM
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If other browsers are also included by default, it is not antitrust to include that browser by default too. The only reason the share of Chrome would be interesting for antitrust would be if that share were leveraged to promote a product in another market, which nobody is claiming.
Re:The European Commission versus Android
by ocdtrekkie on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:56AM
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Actually that's exactly what the claim is: That Chrome being mandatorily included and set as default is used to promote Google Search unfairly. That's directly in the EU's statement.
Re:The European Commission versus Android
by lern_too_spel on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:56PM
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No, the claim is that they're using Android's dominant position to push Google search and other Google products. Chrome's default in itself is not an issue.
Re:The European Commission versus Android
by josteink on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:03PM
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Also: WebDRM.
http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/worldw...
Subtract the iOS market share from the overall base, and is at 75% market share of remainder. The only strong competitor is UC Browser at 13.3%. This is an AliBaba product localized to mainland China. Remove that from the global market, and we end up with ~90% share for chrome in the rest of the world. That's antitrust territory.