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Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 90 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Now lets use part of that money, to fund the development of open alternatives and interoperable protocols / standards. We cannot break a duopoly, if there aren't any alternatives, otherwise it will keep being a duopoly.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

4 billion can go a very long way.

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, straight to data centers

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not in government it doesn’t.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

i can't stand microshaft, but at least windows phone was competition.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Get on with the times, it's microslop now.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I got a Nokia Lumia at the time and the OS quality was surprisingly good. It felt much more well thought end to end than my Android is currently. But it was a mistake to force a convergence with the desktop OS.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 1 points 3 weeks ago

they were around when i was in IT, and I had to support them. they seemed pretty good, apart from the microslop.

My favourite MS thing was having a funeral for the iphone. Within a couple of years, they were having a funeral for the windows phone.