DOJ proposes remedies to curb Google's search dominance (youtube.com)
A user on hackernews: 'I honestly can’t tell if the judges in these anti-trust cases intentionally screw up the penalties.
Instead of forcing Google to do a thing they already do (allow alternative app stores on android), they could have banned them from distributing apps that require Google Play Services (i.e., all apps must run well on the open source version of android, which must be permissively license, and manufacturers would incur no penalties for shipping other mobile operating systems).
That would instantly open the android ecosystem up to competition by making AOSP (and things like Lineage/Graphene) viable competitors.'
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