Google`s `anti-competitive` Android moves could impact Xbox, Windows 11
(Windows Phone Central)

What you need to know Google is facing a lawsuit alleging anti-competitive practices. Google has gradually ramped up its control of Android over the years, forcing manufacturers to integrate more and more Google services. Google reportedly plans to restrict subscription-based streaming services, and that could have implications for Microsoft and many others. Google sucks. But you knew that. Google is being slapped with a suite of anti-trust lawsuits as part of a larger pushback in the U.S. into anti-competitive monopolistic practices by `big tech` (via The Verge). As part of the legal proceedings, the prosecution is outlining a range of scummy moves by everyone`s favorite data-harvesting search monopoly designed to stifle competition. The moves range from forcing Android handset manufacturers to pre-install up to thirty Google services, give them `favorable` home screen placement, while making them `impossible` to delete, which the lawsuit alleges stifles competition from other...