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Re:The European Commission versus Android by s73v3r_ on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:10PM (#17569392)
Cause they don't want to be beholden to Apple in the mobile space.
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Re:The European Commission versus Android by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:06PM (#17570266)
More like Microsoft. Google's nightmare was that Microsoft would control the mobile phone OS, and would use it to drive search results to Bing.
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Re:The European Commission versus Android by s73v3r_ on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:43PM (#17571334)
At the time, Apple had the dominant smartphone, not Microsoft.
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Re:The European Commission versus Android by AnimalMuppet on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:45PM (#17571345)
True. But Microsoft was coming. They were not yet clearly a loser in phones.
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