It took way too long time for this. They have been able to abuse this too long time
Fines go directly to the EU budget, the shortfall for which is then split proportionally among member nations, effectively reducing the burden on those nations, which governments can individually choose to pass on to citizens, allocate to other public budgets, or pocket it. The EU has no say in this decision.
So the EU does trickle down economics too then. Awesome.
That’s not what trickle down economics is.
Literally all the tactics used back in the day by Microsoft. It landed them with billions in antitrust fines and Google for some reason decided to do all the exact same things - literally.
If the fines are not linked to the profit that the company actually gained using the tactic it’s just a mere business as usual schtick.
Until companies are hurt by the fines enough to change their actual behavior this will continue and nothing will change.
too little, too late
people need to stop waiting for a law to tell them whats good and bad and actually fucking make choices with the future in mind. the writings been on the wall for at least a decade or more with these tech companies, and people act like they just cant be bothered to consider the inevitable consequences of their choices, or scoff at the idea of giving up any convenience whatsoever when their neighbor hasn’t yet
Have to wonder if this judgement was influenced at all by Google’s decision to block third party app stores?
It seems it wasn’t because they can’t be fined today for tomorrow’s violations, but they definitely will be fined for this as it directly and explicitely prevents users from installing apps they don’t approve
Well, they don’t care about the overwhelmingly negative response they’ve gotten, hopefully they’ll care about the price tag for this court case and the tone it sets for the judgement at the next court case.
