Google faces lawsuit in the US over Play Store monopoly

08 July 2021
36 of the states claim Google has monopolized app distribution and payment processing.

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AnonD-731363, 08 Jul 2021Well when two battling each other i mean google OS and Appl... moreIt's a crappy OS. It would have been better to use something fully Linux comparable, then expand it to mobile and JavaScript, picking up the hardware and system drivers, using comparability layer with the android Linux core. If there is any advantage to using the normal Linux system structures over time, you can use versions more aligned with Linux, as they are developed for the mobile hardware. Commonality with desktop arm is the objective. You get a market so that the hardware infrastructure between formats of device, can be interchangeable. As we move to desktop arm, this ease of having one hardware code for multiple targets, will be desirable. Hardware manufacturers would prefer to have one driver then many. For users, this may mean better quality code.

But then again, they could have done something new and better, as we were hoping. I've been in the primitive OS sphere for over 35 years, is catching up and still shit. We have morons running OS development, using whatever stock of staff they are bringing in, not elite designers. There has been enough research to show what to do better over the decades. Yet we are still pigs wallowing in mud. Why didn't these people learn from Toas OS? That's the 1980's, it means they are lagging so much, a 1980's os has lessons to teach.

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    • Anonymous
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    • 08 Jul 2021

    AnonD-731363, 08 Jul 2021Well when two battling each other i mean google OS and Appl... moreNice try China.

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      • 08 Jul 2021

      Fayth, 08 Jul 2021I don't understand Android is Google OS, it's th... moreIt's not their device, or life!

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        • 7t3
        • 08 Jul 2021

        The real competitive behaviour is to have a download fee, including a limited amount of reloads. A price on the app, non context advertising, that only uses the nature of the app to universally push advertising, in a way, they don't know the user or device. For the seller and or distributor to not know the buyer, app use or click through on advertising. This means trust mechanisms, that says the click through is registered but more are not registered unless in the future etc, and the use is notified to stop soft clicks. So, the trust mechanism is the only one that knows you and anonymizes the data, the trust mechanism shows you for verification, and it and the receiver regulates the amount of times click through is registered for patents. This allows security alerts for software pretending to click. This makes such short greater impractical, and closes it down. Now, software makes money on sales, the distributor makes money on sales, and too many reloads. Everything else is minor.

        I've had some success suggesting anonymizing by grouping minium amounts of people to them. Which is stuff I planned for a service. Hopefully, they can pick this up. Once everybody makes money this way, a lot of costs drop off, and profit margins increase. The compliance costs of this method bis a lot less.

          AnonD-731363, 08 Jul 2021Well when two battling each other i mean google OS and Appl... moreWow! So, h#uawei will in fact "save the poor and opressed users" of the world? Anf for free? Just because? Lol, haters are really funny.. .

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            • Dk5
            • 08 Jul 2021

            Maybe it's also related to recent .aab(Android app bundle) announcement event which's going to replace the current .apk format(or make that format discontinued completely in future) support across devices(poor win 11 effort to keep it alive)...

            I wonder...😐😐😐

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              • 08 Jul 2021

              AnonD-940827, 08 Jul 2021False information! Notice those states are all trump suppor... moreTrump hasn’t been in office for six months, it’s time to move on

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                • 08 Jul 2021

                Security updates privacy unwanted trash apps services, the hole play store is almost a security risk to install anything, Android is rotten

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                  AnonD-731363, 08 Jul 2021Well when two battling each other i mean google OS and Appl... moreOh yeah Huawei, our lord and savior, c'mon man Huawei might be making their own os and services but that doesn't make them better than google and apple, they are obviously going to do the same thing google is doing so that you can only download from their own store

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                    • 08 Jul 2021

                    False information! Notice those states are all trump supporters. And this only comes now, after trump pointed fingers at Google and Facebook.

                    This is the work of trump (the weak chicken).

                      FatShady, 08 Jul 2021isn't this bs? you can sideload apps, install other ap... moreIt's kind of BS. Sometimes even market dominance is enough. Most people aren't even aware that there are other app stores for Android so that in itself could be a problem. However if you are aware, it's super easy to install a 3rd party store. I ran the Amazon one for a long time when they were always giving out free apps.

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                        galaxy a71 user, 08 Jul 2021Will they sue Apple as well?Which other OEMs are Apple coercing to use their app store?

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                          Fayth, 08 Jul 2021I don't understand Android is Google OS, it's th... moreComeuppance. Microsoft got sued for "monopoly" of their own OS so they were forced to offer a choice of browsers for users.

                          Now it's Google's turn to offer alternative appstores to their OS.

                            Fayth, 08 Jul 2021I don't understand Android is Google OS, it's th... moreAs someone who couldn't care less about Apple or Google, I agree with this. It's not like Microsoft hasn't tried to make a store, or Aurora, or F-Droid.

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                              • 08 Jul 2021

                              Well when two battling each other i mean google OS and Apple OS the third can win.
                              Hope everybody will skip those two and join Harmony OS by Huawei problem solved.

                                Google is very useless and heartless plus all the millions they are making daily am disappointed in them all

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                                  galaxy a71 user, 08 Jul 2021Will they sue Apple as well?Aren't they already doing it?

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                                    FatShady, 08 Jul 2021isn't this bs? you can sideload apps, install other ap... moreApple won't let you change the icons.

                                      isn't this bs? you can sideload apps, install other app stores and practically change anything about your android for free. while apple won't let you even move apps around.

                                        What about Apple Store then? They don't even allow 3rd party apps.