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> The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement with the Justice Department to spearhead an investigation of Google’s Android business, the people said. FTC
by venomsnake 11y ago
> The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement with the Justice Department to spearhead an investigation of Google’s Android business, the people said. FTC officials have met with technology company representatives who say Google gives priority to its own services on the Android platform, while restricting others, added the people, who asked for anonymity because the matter is confidential.
So we are going after the most open platform for which switching any part of the system is going to the playstore/F-Droid instead of the apple shaped elephant in the room.
And Apple is the biggest single vendor of smartphones in US ... go figure.
- delinka 11y ago"Biggest single vendor" perhaps, but certainly not a monopoly on smart phones, nor smart phone operating systems, nor smart phone apps ... Just because they take the lions share of the industry's profits doesn't mean that they sell a monopolistic number of devices.
- venomsnake 11y agogoogle has even less of a monopoly. You cannot be monopolist with GPL product.
- throwawaykf05 11y agoIf not already, you should read this article: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/ http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...