• mlg@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    People thinking this isn’t a monopoly enforcement action in disguise are the same people who think banning Huawei was justified.

    Google’s one mistake was that they sold Motorolla to Lenovo, who ran it as low cost shovelware to make the mobile phone market in the US not look like a complete oligopoly. They kept their cost low by using complete stock Google ROMs while every other OEM exited the market.

    Until recently when Lenovo properly built up their hardware lineup and started jumping ship to GrapheneOS the moment Google started clamping down.