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Unlike Windows in the 90s, Android isn't a monopoly. (iOS has a decent marketshare.) So Google is free to be as anti-competitive as they want to be.
by Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 9y ago
Unlike Windows in the 90s, Android isn't a monopoly. (iOS has a decent marketshare.) So Google is free to be as anti-competitive as they want to be.
- Jyaif 9y agoTell that to the EU.
- richardwhiuk 9y agoThat ruling applies to Search, where Google does have monopoly
- Jyaif 9y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/20/eu-commission-google-android-skew-market-competition-antitrust-vestager https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/20/eu-commis...
- abritinthebay 9y agoNot entirely true. Android market share is !85% (worldwide, it is less in the US). When Microsoft was going through the monopoly cases their market share was ~90-93%. Not actually that far off the same metric. The thing is that Google is being very careful to not commit the same mistakes there. Though I'd say they're pretty close (and the EU seems to agree, generally, warning them a few times over similar behaviors) iOS marketshare is a funny thing - it makes ~$30 billion a year in revenue - 3 times that of the Android marketplace - but has less than 1/5th of the users.