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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight(www.theverge.com)

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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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bigFab@lemmy.world
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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.

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Gestrid@lemmy.ca
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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.

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tabular@lemmy.world
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Needing an app to sign into uni

Jesus fucking hell. Bet it’s propriety.

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miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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Need an app to configure good ol’ eduroam wifi too, but that one’s on F-Droid at least

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aidan@lemmy.world
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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

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Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee
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But that won’t necessarily change with this ruling right? Your government doesn’t need to change how their apps function because of this.

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bigFab@lemmy.world
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I really hope you’r wrong on that. Anyways, it’s a pleasure to see Google bleeding.

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