No surprise here, but I'm tired of the EU's constant crackdown against US tech companies, and Google in particular.

Regarding Android, as far as I understand it, OEMs can get Android for free and put whatever they want on it. They just won't be able to have the Play Store on there. Amazon decided this was worth it to them. Couldn't OEMs put the Amazon app store on their phones?

Regardless, I'm not crying for any OEM in this case because I've never seen a decent app from any of these manufacturers. Even [and especially] Samsung is terrible at software design. I'm not going to go boo hoo for Xiaomi or whoever is complaining because they want to put their own email or calendar app on their phone.

Regarding search: I'm just sick of this issue. I get that Google has an extreme dominance in the EU market, but I don't see how they would be at fault in that situation. Switching to another search provider is free and takes five seconds. Bing and Yahoo are even easier to type.

I also don't see how Google should be faulted for promoting their own services over other providers. When I search Google I WANT their services to come up. That's why I'm using Google. If I searched for an address on Google and got Mapquest results, I'd be pissed off.


I'll fully understand if I'm not seeing both sides of this issue due to my Google Goggles (not the app ), so I'd love to hear someone explain the other side of this argument. All I know is that from what I've heard, the EU's tech legislation so far has done nothing (I believe the browser ballot had no effect on market shares), and annoyed people (any EU people want to speak to the cookies banners you get presented with on various websites?).