Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
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Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#2Previous discussion, from when the probe began: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9068334
Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#3But really, it's 'Abusing Dominant Market Position without Permission.'
Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#4Can someone post a non-paywall link?
Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#5Can someone post a non-paywall link?
Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#6GNU Emacs also abuses its dominant position in the editor market by shipping all this bundled Lisp code.
Over twenty years ago I was a making killing, hand over fist, selling a Usenet news reading add-on for Emacs. Then those anti-trust bastards included some Lisp code which does that, and I went down the tubes.
I mean, what gave them the right, you know?
It's as if not only did they disrespect my sense of entitlement, but it's like they didn't even see it, in spite of its monstrous size.
Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#7The crux of the article:
Google said in February that device makers “are free to install the apps
they choose, and consumers always have complete control over the apps on
their devices.”
Several device manufacturers that pre-install Yandex apps notified the
company in 2014 that they were “no longer able to pre-install Yandex
services,” such as Yandex’s search and map apps on Google’s Android devices,
prompting Yandex to make a complaint to the antitrust authorities. [1]
In order to install Google Play on their devices, device manufacturers are
required to preinstall the entire suite of Google GMS services, and set
Google as the default search. In addition to that, device manufacturers are
increasingly prohibited from installing any services from Google’s
competitors on their devices… The openness of Android is now in a thing of
the past.” [Yandex' claim] [2]
[2] http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/yandex-google-russia-antitr...
Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#8Can someone post a non-paywall link?
Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#9The crux of the article: Google said in February that device makers “are free to install the apps they choose, and consumers always have complete control over the apps on their devices.” Several device manufacturers that pre-install Yandex apps notified the company in 2014 that they were “no longer able to pre-install Yandex services,” such as Yandex’s search and map apps on Google’s Android devices, prompting Yandex…
Protectionist as this move indoubtedly is, it seems as though the allegation is actually true.
Re: Google Found Guilty of ‘Abusing Dominant Market Position’ in Russia
#10The crux of the article: Google said in February that device makers “are free to install the apps they choose, and consumers always have complete control over the apps on their devices.” Several device manufacturers that pre-install Yandex apps notified the company in 2014 that they were “no longer able to pre-install Yandex services,” such as Yandex’s search and map apps on Google’s Android devices, prompting Yandex…
Sounds like some monopolization to me. Google can't be trusted to tell the truth here anymore than the US govt can be trusted to tell the truth about spying. There is absolutely zero incentive to admit to wrongdoing. My only question is why can't we go after Microsoft for locking down hardware in the same way.