[Flammy]

> If they have to pay 5 billion once a year to ensure they have a monopoly I don't that is a bad trade for them.

That exact logic/approach is why we're seeing larger are larger fines, EU basically saying 'shape up, you can't ignore us.'

[amelius]

It may become worthwhile to spend on the order of $1B on lobbying though.

[candiodari]

And legal. Are either of those fines final yet ?

But I find for both of those fines the stated reason from the EU very hard to believe. Does anyone miss "shopping comparison sites" ? I sure as hell don't ...

And the android search choice ? Really ? None of the other search engines support google assistant, and that's the only searching I do on android. Presumably that would never work without close collaboration between all search engines, and ... that's just not going to happen. Nor does iPhone allow you to switch search providers (nor, for that matter, does the redmi or even the amazon phone), so ... hmmm ... both of these "anti competitive actions" are really the norm in the marketplace. If firefox starts coming with an actually good "mozilla assistant" (Mozique ? heh), then perhaps we can start talking about this.