Quote from: anan on May 27, 2024, 11:00:43Am I reading this correctly? The judge wants Google to give users a choice when downloading/delivering an app prom the Play Store? Meaning, you go to the Play Store, find a game and when you try to download it, you will get a prompt to either get it from the Play Store or the Epic Games store.

I think the idea would be to allow the Epic Games Store app as an alternative to Google Play. However, one that would have to be installed via Google Play Store. In the end, I think that Google will choose to pay a lot of money to Epic Games and keep the ecosystem semi-closed as it is right now.

Google is clearly a totalitarian company with sympathies towards Russia.

It is enough to open Google maps with any IP outside Russia (in the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation, despite the fact that Google directly writes that Crimea is Russian) to make sure that Google management does not consider Crimea to be the territory of Ukraine. She considers Crimea a no-man's land.   At the same time, Google Maps considers Donbass as Ukrainian. Strange right? Supposedly an American company...

But Microsoft management considers Crimea as Ukrainian on Microsoft Maps, which is easy to check, as it should be according to international law.

So think about who and how the main beneficiaries of Alphabet are connected...
Google is gradually starting to oppose itself even to the US authorities, which will obviously soon end sadly for them.

Am I reading this correctly? The judge wants Google to give users a choice when downloading/delivering an app prom the Play Store? Meaning, you go to the Play Store, find a game and when you try to download it, you will get a prompt to either get it from the Play Store or the Epic Games store.

All these funny games in antimonopoly matters are a smokescreen for the powerful stratum of the United States. They will never split up and really punish their large multinationals if they do everything in the geopolitical interests of the United States, but contrary to antitrust laws.

All animals are equal, but these are more equal...

In its early days, Google was a fairly customer-oriented company. Now you won't even be able to restore your account if you have all the correspondence for 20 years (previously this was easy through a robot, although there was live support). Now they have only one answer - "create a new account." They have no basic responsibility, even if someone has owned the account for decades.

We need to start with the fact that any large public service cannot unilaterally terminate and block an account without a court decision. And the recovery system should oblige you to provide recovery options even in the absence of double authorization (which is extremely dangerous from the point of view of access to your data at the level of the special services of your country - who simply gain access by substituting a SIM card for literally 30 seconds, just like the criminals who bribed cell phone employees salons).

Microsoft was the last company that did not have double authorization with forced linking of accounts to a SIM card if the client did not want it. But now M$ is completely rotten.

This is precisely a forced digital concentration camp, when you have no sane ways left without double authorization, except to maintain your own mail server on the router, which costs an additional subscription fee for an IP4 address, although IP6 allows you to assign thousands of permanent addresses without a fee.

But everyone will continue to use Windows as long as there is backward compatibility with x86 code and continuity in interface management. As soon as this is violated, interest in Windows immediately disappears. But in the absence of a sane alternative, new chaos will simply begin in the market, until someone stands out again and captures the main market share.

It is absolutely obvious (this does not require proof every time) that all large companies, without exception, conduct business using openly criminal methods, and their management and key beneficiaries should be in prison. But the system of law and "justice" is structured in favor of the rich in all countries, and not civil activists trying to prove their criminal acts. Otherwise, TNCs simply would not be able to exist on the planet. They would be destroyed by the claims of civil activists already at the stage of their consolidation for criminal methods.

Guys, is it only me, or Microsoft is doing about the same with the Microsoft Store? Sure, you can download the setup packages from the software manufacturers, but there isn't anything else that comes close to it. Sure, there's Steam and the others, but Microsoft is just as monopolist as Google when it comes to software delivery. However, we should also keep in mind that Android is Google's OS, after all, so they can do whatever they want with it, as long as it's not illegal. So many resources wasted on these lawsuits... I really feel bad for Ubuntu Mobile and Firefox OS failing to take off properly. Maybe things would have been different for Google if that would have happened.

Quote from: Ikek on May 25, 2024, 15:03:18

Quote from: TruthIsThere on May 25, 2024, 14:11:11Larry Page and Sergey Brin should remove this current CEO, NOW, before its too late.

This is not the same Google that these boys had started-up many MaNy moons ago.

Those two are busy trying to put their AI everywhere, including your toilet.

Google has never been a "good" corporation. Just look at how many dead projects they have.

Where did I say Google was once a "good" company, eh?! 😏

I said... Google is NOT the same entity as they were many moons (years) ago before these boys decided to *beach-island* it out full time.

People's memories are short. It was a time that these boys told the government(s) around the world, especially Capitol Hill and patent trolls, that they ALL could go and pound sand, as for as they care, before Google do any of their requests to spy, snitching, ect. for them.

Never under this current CEO (and oodles of worse stuff that he has handling violated consumers), though.

Quote from: TruthIsThere on May 25, 2024, 14:11:11Larry Page and Sergey Brin should remove this current CEO, NOW, before its too late.

This is not the same Google that these boys had started-up many MaNy moons ago.

Those two are busy trying to put their AI everywhere, including your toilet.

Google has never been a "good" corporation. Just look at how many dead projects they have.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin should remove this current CEO, NOW, before its too late.

This is not the same Google that these boys had started-up many MaNy moons ago.