What scares me about this huge fine is that someone else than Google is going to have to pay for it. Maybe the stock shareholders are the ones paying the price

What scares me about this huge fine is that someone else than Google is going to have to pay for it. Maybe the stock shareholders are the ones paying the price or maybe it will be us, the end consumers. Expect pricey freemium models coming to the Google product line in the coming years, which will give the green light to other companies to push higher prices for software. We've already entered the age of monthly subscriptions, the amount of iOS apps using this system is growing at an unprecedented rate. Get ready! What do you say?