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Long story short for anyone wondering why it's interesting: case was initiated by Yandex. Yandex wanted to have their apps pre-installed on smartphones sold on
by SXX 10y ago
Long story short for anyone wondering why it's interesting: case was initiated by Yandex. Yandex wanted to have their apps pre-installed on smartphones sold on local market, but Google license agreement for vendors require "all or nothing" so vendors are not allowed to have Google Play, but have competitor software on device as well.
Now vendors that produce smartphones for Russian market able to pre-install any search, maps or other apps by default while keeping rest of Google Apps package.
Google also fined for 438,067,400 roubles (~$7,818,136).
- SXX 10y agoMore links from Reuters and Yandex (both posted on HN earlier): http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN17J11C http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN17J11C https://yandex.com/company/blog/celebration-of-choice-a-letter-from-arkady-volozh-yandex-ceo/ https://yandex.com/company/blog/celebration-of-choice-a-lett...