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3 Jun 2022, 5:00 am
Here are Google’s Android-related acquisitions: Would Google have bought Android in the first place (to say nothing of subsequent acquisitions and its massive ongoing investment in Android) if it had been foreclosed from adopting its preferred business model to monetize its investment? [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 12:37 am
Google derives huge commercial benefits from Android (among them the infamous "app tax"), but it generally doesn't indemnify its device makers (also called OEMs). [read post]
28 May 2022, 3:45 am
Die Suchmaschine DuckDuckGo gilt als die datensparsame Alternative zu Google. [read post]
27 May 2022, 10:02 am
It was acquired by Google (with plenty of press coverage) in 2005. [read post]
25 May 2022, 7:10 pm
"Also, footnote 20 is worth noting in this context:"Apple elsewhere concedes—as did the district court—that iOS competes with Google’s Android. [read post]
25 May 2022, 11:10 am
They also told Google that people who use iPhones "have greater privacy from government surveillance of their movements than the tens of millions Americans using Android devices. [read post]
20 May 2022, 2:13 am
If approved (and I can't see anything in it that the judge would foreseeably take issue with), this stipulation will have the following effects--note that this is strictly just about Bandcamp, not Fortnite:For the time being, Google won't kick the Bandcamp app out of its Google Play app store for Android for continuing to circumvent Google Billing. [read post]
17 May 2022, 7:07 am
Jamil highlights a study—by Europeans, no less—that suggests that General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is killing innovation in the Android app market. [read post]
16 May 2022, 5:14 pm
Jamil and I debate geofenced search warrants and the reasons why companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo want them restricted. [read post]
14 May 2022, 1:51 am
On Thursday, Judge James Donato of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (San Francisco Division) held a case management hearing that he scheduled at the same time he stayed a preliminary-injunction motion by Epic Games relating to Epic's recently-acquired Bandcamp music marketplace, whose Android app Google has threatened to kick out of the Google Play Store unless Bandcamp complies with an in-app purchasing (IAP) policy change… [read post]
11 May 2022, 11:12 am
Android followed suit in 2013, introducing the Android Advertising Identifier (AAID). [read post]
9 May 2022, 11:04 pm
Depending on what comes out, Google could even get into serious trouble with the United States Senate.Google's blog post contains some of the same red herrings as always, such as arguing (in other words) that with Android itself being free, Google's Android business model depends on its app tax, and pointing to alternative Android app stores and sideloading, though Epic and the three dozen state attorneys-general suing Google over its… [read post]
4 May 2022, 2:11 pm
Google Voice is a free secondary phone number. [read post]
2 May 2022, 10:46 am
This probably includes messaging apps from Apple, Google, Meta Platforms (e.g., Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram Direct Messenger), and Microsoft. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 11:31 pm
The alleged tying product here is "Android app distribution," a single-brand market definition that I absolutely concur with. [read post]
18 Apr 2022, 12:14 pm
If you are testing an app which requires installation from the Google Play Store, you may want to connect the device to your Google account for convenience. [read post]
18 Apr 2022, 1:14 am
By comparison, Apple basically just has its own astoturfers, Google, and Roblox. [read post]
17 Apr 2022, 10:49 am
Stewart Baker shared an episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast in which Baker, Mark MacCarthy and Nick Weaver discussed this week’s biggest cyberlaw issues, such as South Korea’s effort to regulate Google's Android app store policies and how Western law enforcement also broke the Hydra dark market: Jordan Schneider shared an episode of ChinaTalk in which he and freelance journalist Chang Che discussed Chinese interpretations of US and Western culture and more: … [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 12:06 pm
In addition, the Android app economy helped create nearly two million jobs last year, and YouTube’s creative ecosystem supported 394,000 jobs in 2020. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 8:16 am
Google also allegedly used data amassed through its consumer services such as Gmail, YouTube, Chrome, and Android OS to lock in substantial app developer demand. [read post]
