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Google must pay €4.1bn fine for using Android to 'block' rivals
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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Now lets use part of that money, to fund the development of open alternatives and interoperable protocols / standards. We cannot break a duopoly, if there aren't any alternatives, otherwise it will keep being a duopoly.
4 billion can go a very long way.
Believe it or not, straight to data centers
Datacenters are not inherently bad...
So what you're saying is.. they're inherently bad.
We are talking about developing alternatives to US services, which, surprise, will need datacenters to run. You don't provide email to 700 million people from an old laptop in a basement.
100% agree
Not in government it doesn’t.
I got a Nokia Lumia at the time and the OS quality was surprisingly good. It felt much more well thought end to end than my Android is currently. But it was a mistake to force a convergence with the desktop OS.
Get on with the times, it's microslop now.