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The question is how much money did they make by using Android to block rivals. If using Android helped them make 1bn extra then this fine costs them 3bn and it doesn't make sense from them to keep doing it. If they made 100bn than obviously they will continue.
I mean, with it they've managed to build a walled garden that includes the majority of every phone in the world.
We can probably assume trillions.
It's all hypothetical. You can't know if any of the rivals had any chance at gaining significant share of the market. I was using Blackberry when it was still perfectly fine OS, supported by all the important apps (but before everything was an app) and I didn't know anyone else using it. I think that yes, the deals they made stopped most of the phone manufactures from offering alternative OSes like Geko OS or Lineage OS (before it was called like that) but we can only guess if any of them had any chance of becoming anything else than niche curiosity like Graphene OS today. So you can only really compare this fine with what they are doing now to block Graphene or AOSP. I don't know if this fine is big enough but I doubt they made trillions thanks to those practices.
pretty much. these fines are just cost of doing business. I'm sure they made MUCH more than the fine by doing what they did.