Fines go directly to the EU budget, the shortfall for which is then split proportionally among member nations, effectively reducing the burden on those nations, which governments can individually choose to pass on to citizens, allocate to other public budgets, or pocket it. The EU has no say in this decision.
Literally all the tactics used back in the day by Microsoft. It landed them with billions in antitrust fines and Google for some reason decided to do all the exact same things - literally.
It seems it wasn't because they can't be fined today for tomorrow's violations, but they definitely will be fined for this as it directly and explicitely prevents users from installing apps they don't approve
Well, they don't care about the overwhelmingly negative response they've gotten, hopefully they'll care about the price tag for this court case and the tone it sets for the judgement at the next court case.
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db2@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 42d
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 42d
Fines go directly to the EU budget, the shortfall for which is then split proportionally among member nations, effectively reducing the burden on those nations, which governments can individually choose to pass on to citizens, allocate to other public budgets, or pocket it. The EU has no say in this decision.
db2@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 42d
So the EU does trickle down economics too then. Awesome.
TheOctonaut@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 42d
That's not what trickle down economics is.
db2@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
That was part of the joke, it's a stupid concept so I'm making fun of it.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 42d
Literally all the tactics used back in the day by Microsoft. It landed them with billions in antitrust fines and Google for some reason decided to do all the exact same things - literally.
RangerAndTheCat@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 42d
If the fines are not linked to the profit that the company actually gained using the tactic it’s just a mere business as usual schtick.
Until companies are hurt by the fines enough to change their actual behavior this will continue and nothing will change.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
I agree.
sours@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 42d
Have to wonder if this judgement was influenced at all by Google's decision to block third party app stores?
https://keepandroidopen.org/
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 42d
It seems it wasn't because they can't be fined today for tomorrow's violations, but they definitely will be fined for this as it directly and explicitely prevents users from installing apps they don't approve
sours@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
Well, they don't care about the overwhelmingly negative response they've gotten, hopefully they'll care about the price tag for this court case and the tone it sets for the judgement at the next court case.
Mio@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 41d
It took way too long time for this. They have been able to abuse this too long time