Europe's top court upholds Google's record $4.7B antitrust fine

13 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by bundie
(neowin.net)

7 Comments

johnathan101

5 hours ago

Cases like this always make me wonder how much of the penalty actually changes behavior versus just becoming another cost of doing business.

chromadon

2 hours ago

I often wonder what would happen if Google just refused to pay, or just kept it stuck in legal purgatory as that would be cheaper than paying the fine.

luckystarr

5 hours ago

It only changes behaviour if the risk of having to pay outweighs the benefit. And Google won't tell what they earned through that I guess.

xg15

5 hours ago

How much do all the appeals processes cost?

paulddraper

2 hours ago

tl;dr Google required Android phone manufactures to use Google Search and Chrome.

Ironically, Apple uses Safari on 100% of their phones.

jimmy76615

4 hours ago

I'm sure Trump is going to retaliate with tariffs. The times when the EU could steal from American companies that easily are over.