The EU must have another Budget Shortfall
Still trying to protect Nokia and EU non-performing minor companies.
They have done this to MS, Intel and Apple....
All delivering superior product that they can’t compete with.
Meabwhile French and German genius have not produced a competitive product favored by enough of their citizens to be meaningful.
China, poor old backward China has produced several such competative applications that have usage in the hundreds of millions. Europe suffers from stagnation and invasion and lacks the soul to exist in the modern world.
Why would such a strong Ally fine there close allies....They did the same thing to Microsoft and it was bogus then too
5 Billion, because Google can “afford” it. That’s how leftist philosophy works. Stick your hands in other people’s backpockets and grab as much as you think you can get away with.
Antitrust fine for abusing the dominance Facebook should be next.
I’d feel bad for Google, but it’s a leftist company being hoisted on its own petard.
Sutton’s Law has never been repealed. They were gonna get to Google sooner or later.
$5 billion?
tell them to go F themselves.
Chump change for Google.
Didn’t the F-ing EU just fine Google a little over 2 Billion last year or the year before?
I don’t particularly like Google, but it’s American and I despise the EU more.
The USA needs to jack up the tariff on European goods with the stipulation that half of the additional collected money goes to Google to offset their losses from the $5B fine.
If I owned a software or web company I think I would just design my stuff to detect European IPs and then just refuse to provide service to those people. You know, like youtube will tell you “This Video Is Not Available in Your Region”.
It just doesn’t seem worth wading into that spiraling legal quagmire to make a few bucks off them anymore.
Did they find a method to prevent Rooting; as Apple does to prevent jailbreaking?
Apple has many rules about their OS, they must next on the hit list.
I must have missed it? When did they hit up SAP?
Socialist government
ganging up on socialist company.