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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by xxpor on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:18PM (#24843289)
>Google pays off phone manufacturers to sign onerous contract preventing them from installing other app stores or displaying other options on the home screen or during the setup process

GOOD

Here's the problem. You want to make it illegal for google to stop phone manufacturers from installing even more crapware than they do already? How would that be a win for anyone besides Samsung/LG/Sony/etc? Encouraging even more fracturing of the Android ecosystem and the lack of updates? Google is protecting consumer welfare. This should be encouraged, not looked at skeptically.

This is not the MS in the 90s situation where manufacturers couldn't install Linux instead of Windows. This would be MS saying you can't install BonziBuddy and sell it with our logo and services on it.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by whimsicalism on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:13PM (#24860395)
If it was a win for Samsung/LG/Sony to install crap-ware, then they would be doing it already rather than signing lucrative contracts that help Google maintain its monopoly position.
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