Except Intel which got away with just a 1B fine for stifling the hell out of AMD (and some people believe Intel are still doing that) and Intel was a bloody monopoly and they abused their monopoly to hell.
Meanwhile Google doesn't stifle anyone (yes, they push Google search and Google Chrome but you're free not to use them ever if you have them on your phone preinstalled) yet is hit with a five times larger fine.
I'm sorry, the EU advocates: this 5B fine is simply insane and mostly inappropriate.
Listen, EU, Android is not your adversary. Android is not a monopoly even though over 80% of smartphones run it. Various Android OEMs compete with each other and compete with Apple. Android is simply an OS which is useful for them and given to them mostly for free. Try creating an Android alternative and have people buy your devices. Let's see how it worked for Nokia under Stephen Elop. Oh, it didn't. Let's see how it works for Samsung and their Tizen OS. Oh, and once there was FirefoxOS.
so **if** Fuchsia provides Posix support they will not care are either.
Fuchsia is meant to be POSIX compatible (at least to the extent which allows to compile and run the source code meant for Linux/*BSD without any modifications). The POSIX standard is quite huge and heavy but it's not necessary to fully implement it to be able to run most of the existing code.
Various sources state that this fine has more to do with Google's "monopoly" in search than about any inherent issues in Android which makes me think: are there any real alternatives to Google Search? I regularly try other search engines and none has come close to Google's breadth and coverage by a very long shot. If the EU is advocating for ending Google's monopoly in search, where the alternatives are? I can only think of Baidu but it's mostly a Chinese search engine. Bing just sucks. Yahoo is basically Bing. DuckDuckGo is a search engine aggregator. Yandex was a Google competitor in CIS but its dominance ended around 2010 once Google engineers implemented morphology support for Cyrillic languages.
As for Android forks, the EU authorities have lost their minds completely. There are dozens of Android forks. In Asia all major OEMs (Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Lenovo, etc.) have their own Android forks with their own app stores. Also, Android fragmentation is the least anyone in the world would want - it will basically make Android a lot less competitive that it is vs. Apple which has the only iOS version which runs all their devices (sans the ones which Apple no longer supports).
In short, this fine is just absurd and I'm not sure what is that the EU really wants from Google. Money?
According to various estimates Mr. Putin's worth is over USD 200 billion, so that makes him the richest person on Earth. Unlike Mr. Bezos however Putin has made his money by stealing it from Russians and as a result he's made the country poor, backward and uncompetitive but he couldn't care less.
A lot of journalists attribute this to Windows 10.
I'm not so sure but what I'm sure of is that PCs just don't run forever and probably we're close to the stage when a large mass of older PCs have finally been deprecated in favor of new purchases. Secondly, the number of people on this planet is still growing, so that should have happened sooner or later.
A modern minimalistic graphical text editor should be able to:
Support color schemes or at least allow to edit background/text colors.
Have syntax highlighting for major formats like HTML, XML, JS, JSON, INI.
Show line numbers (in a separate column).
Have infinite number of undo's/redo's.
Allow to configure Tab size and behaviour (real tabs or spaces).
Have a tabbed interface.
Find and replace (case sensitive or not) in either the current open file, or selection or all open files.
Safely edit files: e.g. you add and remove just one symbol and nothing else in the file changes, including its size - Notepad often doesn't work like that.
Are you saying Google will be better off by making Android a closed platform just like Apple does? Craptastic thinking on behalf of European authorities! Maybe Google should listen to them and do just that.
I have a 32GB Android phone and Google apps consume less than 500MB of space (including updates which still leave built-in apk files intact - that's the only way to provide safe and secure factory reset and revert to the original apps if their new versions misbehave).
Windows is still a monopoly in regard to x86 desktop hardware. Windows has so many limitations and obligations, Android pales in comparison. When was the last lawsuit against Microsoft? Or they are regularly paying billions of dollars in fines to EU each year? Enlighten me please.
Have you compared Apple's profits vs. the rest of the mobile industry? Apple's margins are insane in comparison to everyone else. Android OEMs basically give out their devices for free. And what about Apple using all the loopholes in the world not to pay taxes? Why isn't Europe fining Apple for billions of dollars because in the real world Apple is a far worse offender.
If I read you correctly, Apple doesn't provide any choice and Europe is OK with them, Google indeed provides choice with the only exception of mandating that their own apps must be installed, and Google is suddenly a monopoly? Also, who or what forces OEMs to install Android in the first place?
If Europe wants a third major OS/player in the mobile market then why don't they create one?
Google is locking out other companies and businesses from using software that they are allowed to provide.
Don't use Android then. Also, Google doesn't lock anyone from providing their own software. Google wants their software to be included by default and they have the right to.
Because Apple doesn't license its OS to third parties under coercive terms?
Android is given out to OEMs more or less for free yet Android's development costs quite a lot of money. In its turn, you're right, Google demands that you use/prominently feature some of their services. Again, you may freely use core Android OS sans Google Play and associated services.
Tell me again about the "coercion" and how it relates to the fact that no one forces any OEM to use Android at all.
That doesn't make any sense. Android is Google's product and if you're an OEM you are free not to use it and come up with your own mobile OS. If you use Android, Google politely requires you to adhere to their rules because that's the only way to provide a high-quality OS and good experience.
I don't understand this antitrust lawsuit against Google at all. What are Europe authorities advocating for? For breaking Android up into incompatible versions? For breaking up Google's Android department?
Why isn't there an antitrust lawsuit against Apple whose App Store is 100^100 more closed/restricted than the Android ecosystem? I really don't understand why Google isn't allowed to dictate its own rules in regard to Android - if you don't like them, you're free to use the Android core sans Google Play and associated services. What the hell is going on?
You're doing something very wrong if you need to attend to your Windows installation(s) all the time.
I've got a few friends of mine whose Windows (7) installations have been churning along completely unattended for over seven years now - no issues whatsoever.
You just ask them not to install anything they absolutely don't need and to keep an eye on their AV. That's it.
Windows used to be great when it had actual versions and you could install it and forget it for years. Now, with rolling releases, you're playing a roulette with your data and applications every six months. Luckily 7 and 8.1 are still supported and once they Microsoft abandons them, I will update the PCs I'm responsible for to Windows 10 LTSB Enterprise - the last remaining sensible Windows... distribution. Yes, nowadays we have actual Windows distributions.
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Except Intel which got away with just a 1B fine for stifling the hell out of AMD (and some people believe Intel are still doing that) and Intel was a bloody monopoly and they abused their monopoly to hell.
Meanwhile Google doesn't stifle anyone (yes, they push Google search and Google Chrome but you're free not to use them ever if you have them on your phone preinstalled) yet is hit with a five times larger fine.
I'm sorry, the EU advocates: this 5B fine is simply insane and mostly inappropriate.
Listen, EU, Android is not your adversary. Android is not a monopoly even though over 80% of smartphones run it. Various Android OEMs compete with each other and compete with Apple. Android is simply an OS which is useful for them and given to them mostly for free. Try creating an Android alternative and have people buy your devices. Let's see how it worked for Nokia under Stephen Elop. Oh, it didn't. Let's see how it works for Samsung and their Tizen OS. Oh, and once there was FirefoxOS.
Fuchsia is meant to be POSIX compatible (at least to the extent which allows to compile and run the source code meant for Linux/*BSD without any modifications). The POSIX standard is quite huge and heavy but it's not necessary to fully implement it to be able to run most of the existing code.
Various sources state that this fine has more to do with Google's "monopoly" in search than about any inherent issues in Android which makes me think: are there any real alternatives to Google Search? I regularly try other search engines and none has come close to Google's breadth and coverage by a very long shot. If the EU is advocating for ending Google's monopoly in search, where the alternatives are? I can only think of Baidu but it's mostly a Chinese search engine. Bing just sucks. Yahoo is basically Bing. DuckDuckGo is a search engine aggregator. Yandex was a Google competitor in CIS but its dominance ended around 2010 once Google engineers implemented morphology support for Cyrillic languages.
As for Android forks, the EU authorities have lost their minds completely. There are dozens of Android forks. In Asia all major OEMs (Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Lenovo, etc.) have their own Android forks with their own app stores. Also, Android fragmentation is the least anyone in the world would want - it will basically make Android a lot less competitive that it is vs. Apple which has the only iOS version which runs all their devices (sans the ones which Apple no longer supports).
In short, this fine is just absurd and I'm not sure what is that the EU really wants from Google. Money?
According to various estimates Mr. Putin's worth is over USD 200 billion, so that makes him the richest person on Earth. Unlike Mr. Bezos however Putin has made his money by stealing it from Russians and as a result he's made the country poor, backward and uncompetitive but he couldn't care less.
A lot of journalists attribute this to Windows 10.
I'm not so sure but what I'm sure of is that PCs just don't run forever and probably we're close to the stage when a large mass of older PCs have finally been deprecated in favor of new purchases. Secondly, the number of people on this planet is still growing, so that should have happened sooner or later.
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How is this even a news on ./ front page?
A modern minimalistic graphical text editor should be able to:
Now what about this new Notepad?
Wow!
Are you saying Google will be better off by making Android a closed platform just like Apple does? Craptastic thinking on behalf of European authorities! Maybe Google should listen to them and do just that.
Facts please.
I have a 32GB Android phone and Google apps consume less than 500MB of space (including updates which still leave built-in apk files intact - that's the only way to provide safe and secure factory reset and revert to the original apps if their new versions misbehave).
Windows is still a monopoly in regard to x86 desktop hardware. Windows has so many limitations and obligations, Android pales in comparison. When was the last lawsuit against Microsoft? Or they are regularly paying billions of dollars in fines to EU each year? Enlighten me please.
That's not Google's fault.
Hitherto, Google has made the entire source code available almost the same day they released a new version.
Have you compared Apple's profits vs. the rest of the mobile industry? Apple's margins are insane in comparison to everyone else. Android OEMs basically give out their devices for free. And what about Apple using all the loopholes in the world not to pay taxes? Why isn't Europe fining Apple for billions of dollars because in the real world Apple is a far worse offender.
Fuck no.
There's one just one Windows which is developed solely by Microsoft.
Then, there's Android which you can perfectly use without Google services and which is free to download, modify and compile.
Something is really messed up in your head.
Really? What about f-droid and more than a dozen of other app stores?
If I read you correctly, Apple doesn't provide any choice and Europe is OK with them, Google indeed provides choice with the only exception of mandating that their own apps must be installed, and Google is suddenly a monopoly? Also, who or what forces OEMs to install Android in the first place?
If Europe wants a third major OS/player in the mobile market then why don't they create one?
Don't use Android then. Also, Google doesn't lock anyone from providing their own software. Google wants their software to be included by default and they have the right to.
Android is given out to OEMs more or less for free yet Android's development costs quite a lot of money. In its turn, you're right, Google demands that you use/prominently feature some of their services. Again, you may freely use core Android OS sans Google Play and associated services.
Tell me again about the "coercion" and how it relates to the fact that no one forces any OEM to use Android at all.
That doesn't make any sense. Android is Google's product and if you're an OEM you are free not to use it and come up with your own mobile OS. If you use Android, Google politely requires you to adhere to their rules because that's the only way to provide a high-quality OS and good experience.
I don't understand this antitrust lawsuit against Google at all. What are Europe authorities advocating for? For breaking Android up into incompatible versions? For breaking up Google's Android department?
Why isn't there an antitrust lawsuit against Apple whose App Store is 100^100 more closed/restricted than the Android ecosystem? I really don't understand why Google isn't allowed to dictate its own rules in regard to Android - if you don't like them, you're free to use the Android core sans Google Play and associated services. What the hell is going on?
Arm said Cortex-A76 chips would even challenge Intel's Core i7 on performance only when running native code
FTFY.
There aren't that many native Windows ARM applications so far.
You're doing something very wrong if you need to attend to your Windows installation(s) all the time.
I've got a few friends of mine whose Windows (7) installations have been churning along completely unattended for over seven years now - no issues whatsoever.
You just ask them not to install anything they absolutely don't need and to keep an eye on their AV. That's it.
"Ultimately, this is about making money out of thin air."
FTFY
Windows used to be great when it had actual versions and you could install it and forget it for years. Now, with rolling releases, you're playing a roulette with your data and applications every six months. Luckily 7 and 8.1 are still supported and once they Microsoft abandons them, I will update the PCs I'm responsible for to Windows 10 LTSB Enterprise - the last remaining sensible Windows ... distribution. Yes, nowadays we have actual Windows distributions.
This means exactly nothing for the desktop where it's most craved for.