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It's not a battle it's a legitimate point of view. It's also backed by evidence.

Also I balance it with the variety in my submissions.

> The intention of the fines is not to make money but to discourage illegal behavior.

Of course fines are a revenue source, the EU operates on multiyear fixed budged which they supplement with fines and tariffs.

The bulk of that wealth transfer is reliant on the coffers of US companies.

You cannot remove system apps they're part of the OS, the other preinstalled apps come curtsy of OEMs and carriers.

You can change defaults and sideload apps on android, which makes it much more permissible than the rest of maker i.e iOS.

Any company can use AOSP in their devices and laod them with anything they like, see the Chinese market, see Amazon Fire tablets.

Are you suggestion that AOSP has nothing to do with Android!?

And if we were to take the existence of AOSP into consideration then this fine seems even more ridicules and unwarranted.

"Given Google’s dominance in search and browsers and the popularity of its many web services, Pichai’s warning looks more like a bluff to court popular opinion than a genuine threat that Android will no longer be free."

I wish these bloggers would keep their biases and unsubstantiated commentary to themselves.

This fine is an assault on open source, the fact linux didn't attain mainstream appeal on the desktop was largely due to the lack of condition and harmonization across distros.

In any other context fining an open source project for antitrust violations is absurd.

You tell me. It certainly appears that the EU spares no resources at seeking and investigating US corporations and certainly they have no qualm in sticking them with record fines.

By sucking profits from American companies?