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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.S Korea to fine Google $177 mil for forcing software on devices
By KIM TONG-HYUNG SEOUL, South Korea©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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dredlew
So Google (and Apple) develops an operating system and app ecosystem that hardware manufacturers and developers can (no one is forcing them) build a business on. They get the chance to piggyback, without investing the time and resources the tech companies spent to offer their platforms. And somehow it’s now illegal for the tech companies to dictate their terms of their business they built? What? Well, build your own platform if you don’t like the terms…
Ah, that’s right. Turns out it’s kinda hard to build your own platform, isn’t it? It’s easier to just leech off the other guys and then claim “not fair” if you don’t like something. That something you agreed to when you signed the contract before going into business with them.
I sure hope this “tech regulation” nonsense gets struck down. Governments need to stop intervening in areas they don’t understand. The consumer market regulates competition itself. People spend their money on the best solutions that work for them. Hence, why we now have these two dominating mobile platforms and all the other inferior ones are gone. Nokia, Blackberry and even Microsoft couldn’t cut it. The reason is “open” platform architecture to build something great. All the regulation is doing is for companies to build more closed systems that won’t allow for any collaboration and in that sense, innovation.
kurisupisu
Google and Facebook are both too aggressive!