“Android provides more choice for everyone and supports thousands of businesses. This judgment fails to recognize our significant investment to ensure Android remains open, interoperable and free,” a Google spokesperson told CNBC.

Sure. Which is why alternative stores like F-Droid are under threat now.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

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lopis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So much happened since 2018 that this ruling feels ancient now. It was about Google making unfair deals with OEMs:

> In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android’s mobile dominance to give unfair advantage to its own apps via pre-installation deals with smartphone makers.

While this specific problem is much better today, specially since of the DMA, things also got so much worse. And even if a new anti-trust ruling would occur today, we could expect it to drag on almost a decade again...

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plantain 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

If only this was applied evenly. Why is every Samsung/LG/literally every non-Pixel device full of uninstallable crapware?

	▲	graemep 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		None of those companies have the market power Google does.

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xxs 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>This judgment fails to recognize our significant investment to ensure Android remains open

I wonder if that could be considered contempt of courts.

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juliangmp 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's perfectly fine to disagree with a court's decision, what's the crime here?

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bfjvibybd6cuvu6 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Because it's factually and flagrantly incorrect.

> Contempt of court is a legal offense that occurs when an individual or organization interferes with the administration of justice or willfully disrespects a court's authority, dignity, or orders.

	▲	hnfong an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You can disagree with the judgment as long as you follow the orders.

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4thguy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also, very rich given their very active attempts at nailing the door shut on every version of Android except for Android + Google

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chinathrow 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Sure. Which is why alternative stores like F-Droid are under threat now.

I would love to read the internal memos one day when Google decided to make their lifes hard.

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nicce 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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sylware 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why I cannot send email from my self-hosted, no dns, servers to gmail? email addresses with IP literals are much stronger than SPF (email is dropped if the IP of the SMTP client does not match the IP literal in the envelope and in all appropriate 'from' headers).

I cannot browse youtube with a noscript/basic HTML browser (basic <video> HTML element).

It is not enough, much more is needed to make those companies behave.

	▲	petcat an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Why I cannot send email from my self-hosted, no dns, servers to gmail? Because email is a cesspool ruined by spammers and Google is doing the only sensible thing they can to block the scams and pill ads from reaching their users inboxes.
	▲	fartcoin67 13 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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