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If you're suggestion that EU companies don't lobby for preferential treatment and against foreign (see: US) competitors then you're either lying or delusional, as for US regulator …

You'd expect there to be more and heftier fines levied on EU-based companies since it's the regulator overseeing the eurozone, but they save the record fine for US firms. Beside mo…

It's not a battle it's a legitimate point of view. It's also backed by evidence. Also I balance it with the variety in my submissions.

> The intention of the fines is not to make money but to discourage illegal behavior. Of course fines are a revenue source, the EU operates on multiyear fixed budged which they sup…

You cannot remove system apps they're part of the OS, the other preinstalled apps come curtsy of OEMs and carriers. You can change defaults and sideload apps on android, which make…

Any company can use AOSP in their devices and laod them with anything they like, see the Chinese market, see Amazon Fire tablets.

Are you suggestion that AOSP has nothing to do with Android!? And if we were to take the existence of AOSP into consideration then this fine seems even more ridicules and unwarrant…

"Given Google’s dominance in search and browsers and the popularity of its many web services, Pichai’s warning looks more like a bluff to court popular opinion than a genuine threa…

You tell me. It certainly appears that the EU spares no resources at seeking and investigating US corporations and certainly they have no qualm in sticking them with record fines.

By sucking profits from American companies?

Also because the EU is deliberately targeting US companies, the US gov't doesn't have that incentive.

I was responding more to the comments in this thread.

It's always surprising how much comments and postings in these parts are vehemently in opposition to data being usefully incorporated into these apps and services, I remember a rec…

They are certainly entangled in this instance. It's funny how everyone's a legal scholar these days.

They seem to suggest that Google's control over their own site's design/function is somehow an affront to their cause, not mention malicious. They certainly see it as a big enough …

Google can display the results they want in any fashion they see fit, it's their website/apps and their publishing/curation is protected by the first amendment.

Yup, that was in the the blog post announcing AMP, and subsequent press comments. I'm of the persuasion that they can rank and display the results however they please, it's their s…