Yes, the Chinese population is a rounding error when talking about the EU market, which is the only thing over which the EU regulator has jurisdiction. How many devices that are only sold in China are sold in the EU?

I've seen some examples of Wikipedia editors refusing to accept books as sources, only accepting other online sources that anyone can access as passing the verifiable criterion.

How many of those are sold in the EU? Hint: markets outside the EU are of no concern to the EU regulator.

There have been allegations in the UK of voter intimidation after postal ballots became easy to obtain: people would require dependents to hand over their ballots, fill them all in, and post them back. Now, it may be that this didn't happen or wasn't statistically significant, but if people are not required to turn up and vote in such a way that they can't prove to someone else how they voted then there's the potential for doing this on a large scale.

Of course one solution would be to allow individuals to vote repeatedly but only count their last vote, though if you capture someone else's voting credentials then it's very easy to vote en mass with everyone's details at one second to the closing deadline...

Mobile phones that run Android make up the majority of new mobile phones sold. Mobile phones that run Android and don't have the Play Store installed are such a tiny fraction that they're effectively a rounding error. If your microbrewery provides beer for 70% of all restaurants and enforces a contract that, if you want to stock their beer, you can't sell any other beer and must also sell their line of soft drinks then (first, it's not really very micro, and second) I'd expect it to come under antitrust scrutiny.

I'm not sure what your point is. 'Other people are worse' is not a defence in an antitrust investigation, unless those others have enough of a market impact that you're probably not going to be in the antitrust regulator's jurisdiction anyway.

Simple example: I want to sell an Android phone. Not a problem, I can download AOSP and run it. Except that a lot of apps (e.g. almost all mobile banking apps) are only available via Google Play. Okay, so I'll license Google Play for my device. Here's where the problems start: I can only license Google Play if I also preinstall a load of other Google apps (and don't install any competing apps in a few categories and in a way that allows the user to hide them from the UI, but not actually remove them and reclaim the space).

Google is using the fact that they effectively have a monopoly on application distribution (yes, I know about F-Droid and the Amazon store. Most apps I want come from F-Droid, but I'm hardly a typical user and the rest come from Play because they're not in the Amazon store) to gain market share in other areas.

Someone else who doesn't understand antitrust law. WinPhone: trivial market share, no impact on the market. iPhone: larger market share, due to Apple's marketing able to influence the market to a larger degree than market share alone would imply, but still not a dominant player. Android: As a result of controlling the app distribution channel that almost everyone uses, Google is able to force vendors to install other Google apps and services, thereby exploiting one near monopoly to gain market share in other areas.

It doesn't matter whether they did or not. The fact that they effectively control distribution of a number of essential apps means that they can then use this to force phone vendors to install other Google apps. Both US and EU antitrust law agree on this point: It doesn't matter how you came by your first monopoly, you aren't allowed to use it to gain a second.

In antitrust circles, this is called 'dumping' and can have very bad effects on the health of the market.

And I'd rather pay $20/month for 1Gb/s. What? If we're making up totally unrealistic markets then I can have the one that I want too!

Let's take a web browser as an example. Chromium has a number of sandboxing strategies that provide different levels of protection. On Linux it can use chroot (which can't restrict network access), SELinux or seccomp-bpf (which aren't great because they don't differentiate between different instances of the same program, so one sandbox can access anything that any sandbox can access). On OS X, it uses the TrustedBSD-based sandboxing framework. On Windows it uses kernel ACLs. On FreeBSD, it can use Capsicum, which provides the best isolation (though this support isn't fully upstreamed, it's in progress because Google is porting Capsicum to Linux for the ChromeBook). On OpenBSD, it can only use chroot, because the OpenBSD developers believe that complexity is the enemy of security and don't implement security features for userspace software to use (they did have systrace, but it was shown to be trivially vulnerable to timing attacks and never fixed).

Bottom line: the features that a kernel provides can have a big impact on overall system security, and OpenBSD lacks a lot of the security features that you'd expect from a modern system.

The problem is that this distinction is abused. You may not be allowed to donate to a person's campaign, but you can pay large amounts to have ads run on a particular issue that just so happens to be one of the core parts of a particular candidate's campaign platform.

You seem to fundamentally misunderstand how antitrust regulations work. You need to have a sufficiently large market share that your actions distort the market to be considered a problem. I could release a smartphone tomorrow that had a single app store and was completely obnoxious in every single way that people have complained about Microsoft, Apple, and Google, but I would be exempt from any antitrust exemptions because no one would buy my CrapPhone and it would have no impact on the market.

I thought that the Android location stuff let any map application register for handling positions and addresses? I've certainly had the calendar app open OSMAnd on my phone from an address in an appointment. Are there other map APIs that don't support different service providers?