>EU antitrust authorities are gearing up to fine Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.35% GOOG, -0.24% up to $11 billion over antitrust issues related to its Android operating system, according to a report Wednesday in the Financial Times. Alphabet class A shares are down 0.9% in mid-afternoon trading and closed at $1,151.02 Tuesday. Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition commissioner, is expected to announce the fine within several weeks but the exact size of the fine wasn't clear, according to anonymous sources cited by the FT. archive.fo/ONMZ9
First, GDPR and now this. KEK... that progressive search engine is fucked. EU will destroy them.
Good. Fuck Google. Fuck the capitalist swine that will defend them too.
Matthew Murphy
BASED
Jacob Lewis
>implying they would ever pay
Gabriel Hernandez
*bans google from the EU* psssh nothin personel
Michael Green
>The EU announced the antitrust case in 2016 and accused the advertising giant of imposing licensing conditions for the Android OS that favored Google's products and apps over rivals. The EU argued that these activities, among others, amounted to making it more difficult to develop competing web browsers and other operating systems, which ultimately would reduce innovation and give consumers fewer choices. But it's fine when Apple tells you what software you're allowed to install, and you can't even change the default web browser on iOS so if you open a link in a email app or something it always opens in safari?
Connor Long
Yes, the voters would totally love that
Eli Gray
Android has the majority of the market.
Luis Sullivan
thank you eu, you are some of our greatest allies
Jaxon Campbell
Nobody in the EU uses iOS
Owen Peterson
Google has more control over the eu than the eu
Thomas Fisher
This is the IE case all over again. The EU is a bunch of fucking retards. I'm glad GDPR is causing them to be banned from the rest of the civilized internet.
Christian Phillips
RIP EU
Zachary Allen
the (((voters))) allowed this to happen, they voted for politicians that made the GDPR, they have no one but themselves to blame
Sebastian Howard
> I'm glad GDPR is causing them to be banned from the rest of the civilized internet. >the delusions of the amerimutt.
Seeing the demographics of both Silicon Valley and the EU at this point, I struggle to figure out who the Muslims and the Jews are.
Jaxson Stewart
I would love if pajeetpai decided to close you guys up china style, the average IQ in the planet would go up more points than if we just nuked somalia.
Isaac Sanchez
This. Just imagine an internet with EUrabians and their technological illiteracy shitting up the whole place.
so two things could come out of this, either: >the eu unironically saves technology, BTFOing the botnet forever and ever OR >yuropoors don't get to use the same internet we do, effectively erasing all eurofags from Jow Forums BASED merkel T B H
Christian Lewis
>the EU gets rid of google >Euroshitskins get removed from the internet
Those.... those are both equally beautiful prospects desu
When exactly are they going to go after Microsoft or Apple for pushing proprietary non-standard APIs to further their duopoly? Apple literally just announced they're deprecating the OpenGL and WebGL standards to try to lock people into their iOS ecosystem. Meanwhile Google is using the Vulkan standard.
Jackson Campbell
>lagdroid >free software pick one
Connor Taylor
>56% calling someone a shitskin
Nathan Ortiz
it's barely been over a year since the fascist union slapped a $14.5 Billion on Apple. This was in relation to their tax practices but still, the EU has milked Apple enough for a while.
Aiden Roberts
>This near instant assblasted reply
SO many enraged Euroturks ITT it's impressive just how severe their inferiority complex is
>they're deprecating the OpenGL and WebGL standards
kek. safari is such a piece of shit. gonna literally just stop polyfilling for that shit ass browser soon. fuck ifags
Jackson Clark
>First irrelevant bullshit that lets us hand out unenforceable fines >Now more irrelevant fines! Remember when it took them half a decade to try and fine Apple for their tax evasion practices, and then nothing fucking happened? It blows me away that any of you eurotards actually believe a non-governmental body has any authority over international corporations with more free flowing cash than half the world combined and more intelligence data than the goddamn CIA
Nathan Garcia
Isn't Silicon Valley almost a symbol of capitalism? Kinda like Wall Street or something. I mean, with all the businesses and whatnot
Gabriel Morales
They didn't fine them $14bn, they were trying to fine them OVER $14bn in back taxes. Apple never paid.
Andrew Powell
To be fair, Apple *barely* supported OpenGL in the first place. Plus with Vulkan starting to mature, that's likely to overtake OpenGL
Adrian Green
Oh the ironing xD
Levi Murphy
Absolutely this Noone seems to get this, the EU will literally burn before Alphabet products are banned from it
Charles Martinez
Sure, but its not OpenGL's fault that Apple hadn't updated it in years or that their drivers suck. The Mesa projects drivers are up to date and fast.
Apple has specifically blocked native Vulkan support, and it wouldn't surprise me if they start rejecting applications that use MoltenVK.
Ayden Wright
Thank you based germans
Nicholas Clark
European here, it is shitfaced retards like you that ruined the EU I cant wait until I get out of this bureaucratic hell and go to some country with actual freedom And no, I dont mean the US, since that is getting fucked by retarded gov cucks too
Grayson Roberts
Well sure I'm not saying that Apple is fucking insane for abandoning support of the most universally supported graphics API around I'm just saying they never really made an effort to support it in the first place, so nobody really tried to port OpenGL applications to OSX. It's kind of a "Well, that's dumb, but not really a loss" type of thing.
>Apple has specifically blocked native Vulkan support Fucking why? Is this some stupid push for more Obj-C or Swift usage or something retarded
Leo Torres
Why is the EU so anti semitic? Do we need to send our go- I mean defenders of democracy for another round in there? Wasn't 1945 enough to teach you gentiles?
>with actual freedom >I dont mean the US So....what, vietnam? Guam? The Congo?
Connor Stewart
Europeans are too retarded to design and manufacture CPUs. Why do you think they have such a chip on their shoulder about anything technology related? Keep in mind that they still struggle to get their GPS system (Galileo) fully operational despite the fact that America, Russia and China have their own independent systems working for decades now.
Jow Forums spends half its time ragging on Intel for having a research division in Israel. Are you a serious brainlet or is it just low quality bait.
Logan Rivera
Those darn commie liberuls!1!!!1!!1
Hunter Robinson
Android supports OpenGL, OpenGL ES, and Vulkan Apple is dropping OpenGL and blocking Vulkan to hurt Android.
Meanwhile they're making Metal the only graphics API on OS X in order to lock developers into iOS. Same reason Microsoft is dropping all APIs other than D3D12 to lock developers into their new closed UWP ecosystem in 10 and the Xbox.
Adam James
>Same reason Microsoft is dropping all APIs other than D3D12 to lock developers into their new closed UWP ecosystem in 10 and the Xbox. See that actually concerns me a lot. We're going straight back to 2006 when everything was DirectX only because it was the only robust graphics API windows really supported, and then OpenGL 4.1 finally came around and made it not shit and suddenly everything supported both. Now we're going straight fucking back to DirectX only.
Vendor lockin should be fucking illegal.
Wyatt Robinson
>Don't be Evil >signs huge military contract >apple >makes most of it's money off the backs of suicidal employees at foxconn >Amazon >signed fat contract with the CIA >hooli >ran by an asshole
Christopher Thompson
That wouldn't be bad. Hoping this happens at some point. But they should ban USA social media too, ie Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Levi Jones
None of these things have anything to do with the fact that they are most definitely capitalists. Liberalism is defined in part by support of laissez-faire capitalism
Thomas Ross
Now to actually say something about the matter at hand instead of shilling your nationality It's a good start. But it's a "and what next?" sort of ordeal; the only way to really hurt Google is to exponentially increase fines if requirements are not met. It's also good to keep in mind that EU's bureaucratic madhouse is actually a strong point in such matters as it gives rise to the opportunity of making the foreign party jump through an arbitrary number of hoops.
They're "for profit" private organizations and that automatically makes them capitalist.
Ryder Sanchez
I agree, its the very definition of monopolistic behavior and it confuses the crap out of me that Google, whose services work everywhere on everything is on the EU's shitlist, while Microsoft whose services only work on Windows somehow escapes with slaps on the wrist constantly. Have they ever considered the reason why Google wins is they aren't tying their services to their devices? If I want to play DirectX games I need Windows, if I want to use iTunes I need a Mac, if I want to use Gmail or Play Video it works on anything.
If they wanted to really put a stop to anti-competitive behavior they would require the use of open standards.
I'm pretty sure the EU is just hunting whales for easy cash, they only have a few robust economies in the collective and migrant crisis is hurting their welfare systems pretty fucking hard, on top of trying to ramp up their own military since Big Donny D keeps threatening to stop covering for them. Apparently Germany has 0 combat-ready fighter jets and one whole submarine that's about to go out of commission, and that's the country with one of the best economies.
That being said I wouldn't mind Google opening up Android a bit more. Having to install GAPPS for even the simplest Android-staple feature is fucking obnoxious.
Elijah Sanchez
Post feet
David Barnes
This entire chain of replies is over a guy claiming they aren't capitalist, it doesn't have anything to do with whether or not they are hypocrites about their social ideals
Liam Wilson
>Don't be Evil They haven't used that slogan since 2008. Google is fully on-board evil.
Parker Price
>the point > 30 astronomic units >(You)r head
Noone debates their hypocrisy, you have just been shot down for having the nerve to call them not capitalist.
......I love bullying Euroarabs as much as anyone else, but a measly $11B is nothing to the EU.
Jaxon Gomez
>It's another "Europe tries to steal money from successful businesses to prop up their failed welfare states and delay their bankruptcy" episode Yawn.
Nicholas Martin
You are right, but Google should also get shit on, but for privacy reasons. Shit like this has to happen slowly, sad as it is. The world would either implode or go to war again (both are nice, really) if everything that needs to happen just clicked instantly into place.
Mason Martin
By itself? Yeah, nothing. Combined with all the other multi-billion dollar fines they're whipping across the table at any company with a dime to their name? That's a whole lotta bennies that get covered.
Brody Russell
Something pretty close to facists actually. They just prefer an oligarchy that pretends to have been your choice to a dictator, and would prefer a government that calls itself socialist even though it'll be the means of production seizing the government and not the other way around.
Levi Collins
>projecting
Ethan Martinez
>Google should also get shit on, but for privacy reasons. Not going to disagree with you there, but Microsoft is pulling the same shit now but worse with Windows 10.
Isaiah Nelson
>It's a "faggots thinking they understand foreign politics when they can't even grasp what their own landfill is doing" It's like two idiots sitting on their Jenga tower and all they concern themselves with is "hurr durr his tower is gonna collapse any minute"
>the means of production seizing the government and not the other way around.
Winds up as the same shit either way. A group of assholes with too much power over everyone else. Bureaucrats are just lazier/less intelligent versions of the corporate guys.
Caleb Edwards
(You) too
Grayson Jackson
That view, while understandable, breaks essentially the entire canon state philosophy and excludes you from political debate, making it ultimately gimping. The most defining aspect of a state is that individuals give up on the notion arbitrary freedoms to know their freedoms with respect to others secured. It comes from the idea that "being able to do everything" ultimately is a fundamentally dysfunctional notion of freedom.
>the most defining aspect of a state is that individuals give up on the notion arbitrary freedoms to know their freedoms with respect to others secured What kind of commie one world govt bullshit did I just read?
Michael Gomez
OY VEY, that's a lot of shekels! How will Goolag pay salaries to all of their insane special snowflakes if EU keeps fining them so much all the time??
Stupid lazy jealous goyim want money from hard working Jews. Nothing new here. Next.
Thomas Jones
This is entry level state philosophy. Were you guys raised under a rock? Did you not even read Locke, Hobbes and Kant? My philosophy ed was basic af already how can you not know this?
Jonathan Gray
Its filled with companies with shares and wage labor. Stop being a retard.
