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My understanding is that Google's behavior was seen as strong-arming their way into signing non-competitive agreements with competitors. For example, they'd ma
by didibus 3y ago
My understanding is that Google's behavior was seen as strong-arming their way into signing non-competitive agreements with competitors.
For example, they'd make a deal with Samsung that if they want Google services on Samsung phones, Samsung had to agree to not let anyone else put competing app stores or payment processing other than Samsung's own and Google's own.
Where-as Apple it's more seen that they simply are not letting competitors put their alternatives on their own Phones, which isn't seen as anti-competitive, but more as how Apple itself competes.
And probably Google also internally used bad language that talked more about how to prevent competitors, etc. that might have been more incriminating.
So I think they see it more like if CocaCola told Walgreens they won't sell Coke products at Walgreens if Walgreens caries Pepsi products. Where Coke is seen as such a big player, that their leading market position forces Walgreens to agree, because not selling Coke would harm them financially so much due to the market leading position of Coke, but also it's seen as a anti-competitive agreement from Coke.
- kevindamm 3y agoJurors confirmed that a big part of their decision was based on Google's internal behavior, not explicitly the deals. The evidence that upper management would move sensitive conversations to chat where they knew a short 24hr retention period existed was a very influential piece, as well as some of the wording in internal emails. I always thought the Communicating with Care courses were a reasonable amount of legal paranoia, but I see how it could also look sketchy.
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoMy favorite part of this whole thing is getting ammo against Google apologists (aka current Googlers not using auto-sell).
- ralfd 3y agoautosell?
- amyamyamy2 3y agoAutosell is a way for employees to automatically sell their Google shares as soon as they vest