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When you get into antitrust scales of size nothing is voluntary, that's the whole crux of this issue. If you wanted your handset to sell you had to play nice wi
by Someone1234 8y ago
When you get into antitrust scales of size nothing is voluntary, that's the whole crux of this issue. If you wanted your handset to sell you had to play nice with Google and do what Google told you.
Handset makers didn't really have much of a choice, they weren't big enough to compete directly with Google.
- tssva 8y agoSamsung is a huge multinational conglomerate with hundreds of billions of revenue and tens of billion in yearly profits. They also sell over 20% of all smartphones switching position back and forth with Apple for leading market share. I find it hard to believe that they were too small in comparison with Google to compete with their own mobile OS and app market.
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago> I find it hard to believe that they were too small in comparison with Google to compete with their own mobile OS and app market. They already tried, more than once, and all their attempts failed.
- paulie_a 8y agoThey are too inept, they already make crappier versions of the basic Android apps and put them on their devices.
- rahimnathwani 8y agoThe sentence I quoted from the article, and what you've written above, both suggest that the issue is/was bundling of (i) Android and (ii) some set of Google services/apps. I thought the case was about bundling (i) some set of Google services/apps and (ii) some other set of Google services/apps.