South Korea fines Google $32M for blocking games on competing platform

https://www.reuters.com/technology/south-korea-fines-google-32-mln-blocking-release-games-competitors-platform-2023-04-11/

by justeleblanc • 3 years ago

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crunchyfrog• 3 years ago

I assume they'll be going after Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc. now for doing literally the same thing?

fauxpause_• 3 years ago

Not sure that’s true. Seems like this is about Google blackmailing them with App Store exposure if and only if they play ball.

That’s arguably different from paying for exclusives.

akudha• 3 years ago

lol, what difference would it make? This is like me getting fined 32 cents, it is just a rounding error for Google

3np• 3 years ago

I dislike this conflation of institutions with nations in the (original) title. Reuters doing this certainly shapes the way many perceive the world.

Better title would be "Korea Fair Trade Commission fines [...]"

GauntletWizard• 3 years ago

I thoroughly disagree, and think its perfectly acceptable for international press to refer to decisions made by government agencies as just the country itself. Not every government has a 1:1 comparison with the US FTC, and just because it's named similarly doesn't mean the Korean FTC operates with the same set of rules or remit.

As a foreigner, you should understand implicitly that governments aren't monolithic entities, but also don't usually need the details on which branch of a foreign government handles what.

automatoney• 3 years ago

The word for this figure of speech is metonymy - specifically a type of whole to part synecdoche.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totum_pro_parte

South Korea fines Google $32M for blocking games on competing platform

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