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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

On top of what Aatube says about secret unfair deals, Google's Play Store is necessary to run essential social services. In my case I need it to download my banking app and to sign into my university's online studies.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Even something as simple as the Wikipedia app checks to see if Google Play Services is installed and running before it'll let you use it.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Needing an app to sign into uni

Jesus fucking hell. Bet it's propriety.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Need an app to configure good ol' eduroam wifi too, but that one's on F-Droid at least

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Need an app to configure good ol' eduroam wifi too

I'm pretty sure you don't, or at least didn't, it's just much more of a hassle to configure

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

In theory you don't. In practice I couldn't get working with the 6 page step for step tutorial.

It is almost impossible to get it working without the app.

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, well in that case, even better

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But that won't necessarily change with this ruling right? Your government doesn't need to change how their apps function because of this.

[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I really hope you'r wrong on that. Anyways, it's a pleasure to see Google bleeding.