Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight

• Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Galaxy Store was a special exception made for Samsung. Generally, Google is pretty “persuasive” about being the only pre-installed app store on the phone.

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• ExLisper@linux.community ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s in the contract between Google and Samsung? What exactly are the conditions for including both stores? Can any phone manufacturer get the same deal? What are the requirements for licensing Android? What number of phones on the market don’t include Play Store by default? What % of applications are only in Play Store?

  Monopoly is not about exceptions but about market control. Until you know what companies have to do to use Android and function on the market you can’t really tell if it’s monopoly or not.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have to imagine the contract that Samsung has is “We’re Samsung. We basically ARE Korean technology. We can build our own mobile OS if we want to and cut you out entirely. That’s a lot of spying on customers you wouldn’t get to do. We get our own app store or we walk. Oh look, LG just exited the smart phone market. Do what must be done.”

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s in the contract between Google and Samsung?

    Samsung uses Google’s OS (or a fork of it anyway). One of the conditions in the ToS of using that for commercial purposes is that you have to have a certain number of Google apps and services installed and not removable.

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