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0 pointsthrowawayjava7y ago0 comments

Which is a kind of silly decision on Google's part, because they have far and away the superior product and also the superior brand. Even if the option was given at setup, nearly everyone choosing to buy an Andriod phone would select google as the default search engine...

(I guess you could say that didn't see this coming, but the parallels with MSFT and IE are pretty hard to not see...)

The fine is going to hurt a lot more than any remedial action.

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thefounder7y ago

I believe you are wrong. In Russia Yandex has grown a lot after the option was given at setup.

gandhium7y ago

A lot? It was about ~50% and increased by a couple of percents.

ocdtrekkie7y ago

Much of their entire dominance as a company hinges on pushing defaults, and their ability to force manufacturers to ship Google apps, on any phone sold in the EU, is a massive blow. The penalty is chump change for Google, but the remedy is what is going to hurt long term, because competitors can finally get in the game.

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