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So, showtime. While no one was paying attention, Google shifted the #search_monopoly from desktop to mobile - and won. Appeal heard next week: @EU_Competition decision in 2018, started in 2013, on econ theory of harm developed originally for the #Russian case before @FAS_RF 🧵1/
Aside from fripperies on market definition, real issue was #leveraging power in #Google_Playstore (that every OEM wanted) by offering it #free on condition Google Search was #preinstalled “at every entry point” on the device. Plus other goodies. No other engine stood a chance. 2/
Unusual (& initially counterintuitive) was that leveraging was not “from dominance in search” into something else, but from #must_have Playstore to establish & protect #search_monopoly. Eventually we got there: it’s like #Microsoft! Tying/ leveraging! There’s precedent! Cool.3/
