On: Google to charge Android OEMs as much as $40 per phone in EU

[jsiepkes]

Call me a pessimist but I suspect Google will just do both: Take the money for the Play ecosystem and continue exploiting your personal data for financial gain.

[pawelmurias → jsiepkes]

In those phones Google will take the money from the Play ecosystem and $40 from the vendor. The Not-Google company that is pre-installed will exploit your personal extra hard to remake the $40 they gave Google.

[anoncake → pawelmurias]

Not-Google will exploit your personal data as hard as they can. But so will Google -- why do you expect them to leave money on the table?