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Judge Hints at Plans to Rein In Google’s Illegal Play Store Monopoly (www.wired.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As I understand it (from my non-legal casual read of the new coverage). Having a monopoly isn't illegal, abusing it is. For Google they found that google was secretly paying companies to not put their apps on other stores. That was what they got the judgement against them. They didn't find anything like that for Apple.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

As I understand it (from my non-legal casual read of the new coverage). Having a monopoly isn't illegal, abusing it is.

If you wanna get legal about it, none of this has anything to do with a Monopoly. No one has a monopoly. The "mono" prefix means "one". And there are at least 2 massive competitors in the space of app stores.