European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case
This is a dangerous ruling that pushes the world further into the potential for trade wars by proxy.<p>Contrary to numerous posts-<p>-no, the law isn&#x27;t &quot;clear&quot;. This is an incredibly nuanced situation, and the notion that Google was just overtly flouting (ed: thx sjcsjc) the law is outright nonsense. Google has a huge litany of bad practices (I personally recently switched my daily driver to an iPhone for that reason), but simply saying &quot;Surprise....enormous fine&quot; is ridiculous.<p>-the fine is <i>enormous</i>. Various &quot;well it&#x27;s only a quarter&#x27;s earnings across all of Google&quot; are outrageous. Over 6 years Google spent a grand total of $1.1B in all expenses for Waymo, for instance. $5B is an enormous, enormous amount of money for any company.<p>I highly doubt this will be a &quot;pay it and forget it&quot; fine, but is going to ring across all multinationals as a warning.