Europe's top court upholds Google's record $4.7B antitrust fine

Cases like this always make me wonder how much of the penalty actually changes behavior versus just becoming another cost of doing business.

	▲	chromadon 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I often wonder what would happen if Google just refused to pay, or just kept it stuck in legal purgatory as that would be cheaper than paying the fine.
	▲	luckystarr 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It only changes behaviour if the risk of having to pay outweighs the benefit. And Google won't tell what they earned through that I guess.
	▲	paulddraper 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They definitely affect behavior. Legal compliance is a huge part of modern enterprises precisely because of cases like this. Ultimately, everything has a risk/reward analysis, but it factors in heavily.

xg15 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How much do all the appeals processes cost?

ChrisArchitect 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

paulddraper 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

tl;dr Google required Android phone manufactures to use Google Search and Chrome.

Ironically, Apple uses Safari on 100% of their phones.

I'm sure Trump is going to retaliate with tariffs. The times when the EU could steal from American companies that easily are over.