[ocdtrekkie]

To me, it demonstrates the fines aren't an adequate remedy: Google still turned it into a profit model. The EC needed to split up Google, and force Google to divest Android if they wanted to remain in business there. (Note that if you ask Google why they created Android, it reads something like "out of the goodness of our heart", but it's bull. It's about ensuring everyone's on a platform that defaults to Google services for everything.)

Note that the EC can yet still tell Google that it's solution isn't adequate and not compliant.

[joshuamorton]

Is your suggestion here that google be barred from monetizing android? That goes well beyond anything having to do with anticompetitive practice.

[ocdtrekkie]

No, however, tying Android to Google Search (even through a supposedly competitive market, where Google always wins a space, and Google makes money either way) is illegal.

Google can monetize Android pretty successfully through a way it already also does: Selling apps in the Play Store. And if Google was forced to divest Android, it is likely that is how the newly independent Android would fund itself.

In fact, if Google were forced to give up Android, the proposed search engine bidding process would work fairly: Google would have to compete and bid and pay to be listed just like everyone else.