It’s because the acts in a vacuum aren’t illegal. It’s about leveraging power derived from market dominance. (Although in this case the legality hasn’t been ad

It’s because the acts in a vacuum aren’t illegal. It’s about leveraging power derived from market dominance. (Although in this case the legality hasn’t been adjudicated because a settlement was reached). If you create a platform and app market with strict rules, that’s not illegal. The logic here is that you’re new in the market and if the terms aren’t commensurate with market conditions, you will never grow. If you do grow, then the market has decided that the gains outweigh the limitations you imposed. There comes a point where you have gained enough dominance where your actions can be scrutinized. But in general as long as you don’t actively tighten the reigns, you’re in the clear. So if you had strict rules when you started and despite those strict rules you grew and since then you haven’t made the rules stricter, then you’re in the clear because you haven’t abused your market dominance. The flip side of this coin is that if you created a platform and app market that didn’t have strict rules and was very open, but once you’ve gained market dominance you put up hurdles or you impose stricter rules, then there could be a problem because now it can be explained as you abusing your market dominance after everyone got in. Personally I don’t think the so called “scare screens” fall under dominance abuse because they serve a legitimate purpose. If anything I think they’re not enough. Nokia’s Threat Intelligence Report in 2021[0] reported that Android makes up more than half of all the infected systems in the recent 2023 report this had dipped to 49%[1]. But as they’ve done in prior reports, this year they again highlight that most Android malware is a trojanized version of legitimate apps distributed via alternative means: > Android based devices are not inherently insecure. However, most smartphone malware is distributed as trojanized applications and since Android users can load application from just about anywhere, it’s much easier to trick them into installing applications that are infected with malware. Android users can protect themselves by only installing applications from secure app stores like Google Play and installing a mobile anti-virus product on their device. In any case, whether something is legal or illegal in this case depends on whether it was or wasn’t done while having market dominance. 0: https://pages.nokia.com/T006US-Threat-Intelligence-Report-2021.html https://pages.nokia.com/T006US-Threat-Intelligence-Report-20... 1: https://www.nokia.com/networks/security-portfolio/threat-intelligence-report/ https://www.nokia.com/networks/security-portfolio/threat-int...