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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by GeekyBear on Sunday August 31, 2025 @11:58PM (#45089309)
The problem here is that Google lied about Android being open.

The solution is to force Google to keep the promise that they made to consumers, which is the job of the courts.

I would expect them to lose yet another antitrust case over this if they don't back down.

Does Google want to have Android and Chrome stripped from their control?

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by wkat4242 on Monday September 01, 2025 @01:25AM (#45089716)
> Does Google want to have Android and Chrome stripped from their control?

That would be amazing but it's not going to happen.

And the EU will back their sideloading validation because they want to spy on all of us anyway. This will be done with a backdoor in each chat app, meaning they want to be able to block unsanctioned apps.

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Re:Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install... by GeekyBear on Monday September 01, 2025 @02:41AM (#45090100)
Stripping Chrome from Google's control is already one of the suggested remedies in one of the antitrust cases Google has recently lost in the US.
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