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Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by madeofpalk on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:42PM (#38608188)
Google was punished for making deals to limit competition on their ‘open’ platform.

Apple doesn’t really make these deals, so they weren’t punished for that.

Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by nerdix on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:50PM (#38608252)
So Google should have never allowed competition to begin with like Apple. That doesn't seem like a great answer to me.
Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by mikhailt on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:56PM (#38608306)
They did not allow competition, they made illegal deals to keep their App Store installed on other devices.

If they left it alone and all OEMs chose to keep Google play store and billing, nothing would’ve happened.

Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by madeofpalk on Monday December 11, 2023 @08:56PM (#38608304)
No, Google shouldn’t have given Riot Games $10m in marketing to prevent launching a competing android store, or give OEMs 20% cut of Play revenue to prevent them from bundling competing stores. Or cut a special deal with Spotify where it pays 0% while still using Play Store billing.
Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by scarface_74 on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:02PM (#38608350)
You mean just like Epic got special marketing deals from console manufacturers?
Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by madeofpalk on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:15PM (#38608445)
Right - a co-marketing deal isn’t the illegal thing. It’s the "limiting competition" part that gets them in trouble. This case was entirely about figuring out when a ‘good business deal’ becomes anti-competitive. This is also playing out now with Google paying Apple for default search engine.

If it was revealed that Sony gave Epic a special marketing deal to prevent Epic from launching a console, then yeah that would be pretty dodgy!

Re:Epic vs. Google: Google Loses by Dylan16807 on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:18PM (#38608470)
Epic shouldn't get special pricing either. Even Epic will say that.