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Anticompetitive behavior in forcing OEMs to bundle other Google Apps if they wanted access to the Play Store and Play Services, which has nothing to do with the
by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Anticompetitive behavior in forcing OEMs to bundle other Google Apps if they wanted access to the Play Store and Play Services, which has nothing to do with the other two things you mentioned.
- econ4all 8y agoThey weren't forcing anyone to sign the contracts, see Fire devices and the Chinese mobile market for google free Android examples. Also you're making sound like they were "bundling" trash, the apps are useful and of higher quality than most apps on the platform, not mention that they make Android phones comparable to iPhones.
- s73v3r_ 8y ago"They weren't forcing anyone to sign the contracts" This is very, very disingenuous. If the only way to have a successful product in the American and European markets is to have the Play Store, then yes, there is some level of force there. "see Fire devices and the Chinese mobile market for google free Android examples." Google wasn't allowed in China to begin with, so that's a very poor comparison. And the Fire Android devices flopped pretty badly. "Also you're making sound like they were "bundling" trash, the apps are useful and of higher quality than most apps on the platform" Completely irrelevant; they're still forcing the bundling.