The European Commission - which is composed of people living on money that were taken away from the EU citizens, regardless of whether they agree with it or not – has imposed an astonishing fine of 4.34 billion EUR on Google, which is a firm that earns money from voluntarily payments of its customers. Unfortunately, we live in a world where a bunch of parasites, who cannot earn a living by providing services for which people voluntarily pay only when they want to, fines a firm which not only can do it, but also has to make much more money, because they partially finance these parasites and also other similar institutions.
What was the official reason for this ”robbery”, when simply one subject from the position of power steals from the other? On the one hand, Google allowed itself to set the conditions, under which phone manufacturers can use Google Play app. Oh, what a brazenness it is from them to determine the conditions under which they will provide their services! What were the conditions? If the manufacturer wanted to sell his phone with the Google Play app, he had also to install an official version of Android, Google search engine, and Chrome browser. It’s like when a car manufacturer installs his engines to his cars, not engines of his rival; or like when a song writer and singer in one person sings his own songs, not someone else’s. Another misconduct of Google is that it pays the operators and manufacturers to pre-install the Google search engine. By this logic, we should punish everyone who earns by advertisement, when he buys a place where he can place the ads; because that’s exactly what Google does: It buys place from the operators and manufacturers where it can display ads and make money from that.
None of the above Google practices harm customers; if they were unhappy with it, they would simply go to the competition. Paradoxically, the fact that the customers don’t do that is used as an argumentation for fining – a huge market dominance. Yes, that’s right; when you are so good that people want to use your services far more than the services of rivals, you have to be punished for that. We are fining those who do their job very well; and by subsidies we reward those who are doing job so miserably that they cannot earn a living from voluntarily payments.
An interesting question is also… Why should the money get the EU? If Google harm the customers – that wasn’t even the case – they should rather compensate them, am I right? And if they worsened the position of their rivals (and that is what they did, but that is what competition is about and it is the basis of a healthy economy), should not that money go to those competitors? The European Union has nothing to do with the whole thing. The only reason why this is happening is simply because the EU has enough power to get that money from Google. The generous words of how the states or the EU protect the weak and without them, there would be only the laws of the jungle and the stronger ones would defeat the weak are just trying to cover the simple reality that the stronger with political power already defeats the weak: the European Commission point at a firm with enough money, and - under some pretext – they take some of the money away from this firm; simply because it’s possible, tempting, and people will not say a word against it. After all, Google has a ton of money.
Česky: https://www.mises.cz/clanky/evropska-komise-podojila-google-2267.aspx
Author: Urza
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As far as I know Android = Google, so they can do whatever they want.
Apple also install it's components in IOS AND MACOS
I agree with your point.
thnx
You welcome my friend
Yeah, but the European Commission has a different opinion so they fine Google although they have nothing to do with that. They just found a beautiful way to make money. :/
They should sue apple too.
In one way it's good, because it may remove the bloatware in android apps.
Once it happened to microsoft, when the only web browser installed was IE, they made that person could choose the browser they want.
In a way it's good.
I had LG E400, due to bloatware and small disk space I could no longer use it.
This articles is full of nonsense logic and misleads.
Practice of how google beating the concurence is same like dumping prices.
If you want to know something from history look on Openmoko phone.
Libertariani zastavaji nazor, ze do ekonomiky by se nemelo zasahovat - z pozice sily - temer vubec, a to vcetne zakazu dumpingovych cen. Byl bych rad, pokud bys uvedl konkretni chyby v logice uvazovani, abychom se mohli oba ve svych nazorech posunout nekam dal. Dale bych doplnil, ze dumpingove ceny funguji pouze tehdy, pokud tu mame nescetne bariery pri vstupu do podnikani. Bez nich by dumpingove ceny jen zlevnovaly vysledny produkt, nejaka konkurence by mozna zkrachovala, ale stejne kdyby Google opet nastavil cenu svych produktu prilis vysoko, konkurence by se objevila jako houby po desti.
No jenže tohle nebere právě v potaz to v jaké podobě ten google je. Prostě pokud se přestane zasahovat tak takovéhle firmy pošlou do hájíčka všechnu konkurenci... Konkurence googlu v podstatě neexistuje.
Jasně logika o tom, že kdyby byl volný trh tak zásah je špatný je správná, ale on volný trh není a nikdy nebyl, takže boj proti zásahům a vymezování se proti nim neni nic jiného než ačkařskej populismus. :)
Openmoko jsem uvedl jako příklad toho jak android zatočil se vším co mu stálo v cestě a taky příklad toho z čeho vlastně vzešel...
Libertariáni jen v zásadě při dnešní situaci hrají do karet velkým společnostem a napomáhají oligarchii a úpadku kvality.
A ten společenskej proces který hájí, já třeba hájím v přírodě, s tím že jsme ochoten nechat divoká území napospas aby se s tím nějak vyrovnala, což sem tam přináší i zkázu celého ekosystému na nějakém území.
Ale upřímně si teda tehle koncept nepřeju v naší společnosti, protože by jsme museli nejdříve zaniknout a pak pokud by myšlenka libertariánů byla dostatečně protkaná společností a neregulovaná tak by to mohlo fungovat, jinak je to zkrátka jen způsob jak jít do pekel...
A co se týče logiky, mezi google a eu není žádný rozdíl, protože oba si svou pozici vymáhají silou a nekalýma praktikama a proto mě zaráži že se do něčeho takového vůbec někdo naváží a v zásadě obhajuje google. Stejně tak jako google má svoji moc tak eu má svoji moc a je naprosto přirozené že ji v takovémto případě použije ač se to nemusí líbit. Snaha kohokoliv omezovat eu je jen další projev nesvobody proti které jak doufám správně chápu celé toto hnutí bojuje. Slovo bojuje je onen problém... A šíření takovýchto názorů je jen forma boje nic jiného. Až libertariáni složí zbraně tak se s nimi můžu já jako anarchista teprve začít kamarádit :)
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STOPI have to disagree with your post here. Google was fined not because of advertising their search engine, but because they were misusing "the power of defaults" - where the end user is too lazy to fiddle about with the settings.
This allows Google to strengthen its monopoly in the search market, pushing its competitors, like DuckDuckGo and Bing down.