Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals
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A Google spokesperson said the judgement "fails to recognise" the firm's "significant investment to ensure Android remains open."
  • mschae@discuss.mschae23.deEnglish
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    5 days ago

    why is Apple not guilty of the same thing?

    They are, I believe the commission has also been investigating apple for this. But it might also be considered a different situation since, as far as I understood, google was fined for pressuring other manufacturers into pre-installing google search and chrome on their devices.

    Apple is ten times worse in this regard because you actually can’t use any browser but Safari on iOS

    Well, WebKit, not safari (you could say safari is apple’s WebKit skin, I guess), but you’re right. The DMA was supposed to fix this and force them to allow other browser engines, but I don’t think much has changed in this regard. I’m not aware of any browsers not using WebKit on iOS so far, at least.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      Thank you for being corrective about the WebKit thing.

      I wish media and others would be more accurate when talking about browsers. All these “Chrome-based” browsers are not “based” on Chrome at all, they are just using Blink, the rendering engine, which Chrome/Chromium also uses. And Blink itself is based on/forked from WebKit, funny enough.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I don’t get all the fuss about browsers. google and apple are really just trying to make sure everyone is using a KHTML based browser, out of the goodness of their heart, so it is good for everyone. KHTML is good. don’t fight against it.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Any particular reason why it’s “good for everyone”, or it just is?

          Diversity and non-monopoly is good.

          • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            /s

            if it was just the rendering engine and not the entire base browser, removal of the APIs from chrome needed for ublock origin wouldn’t be that big of a deal.