Google faces EU charge over Android 'abuse of dominance'(bbc.co.uk)

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Google faces EU charge over Android 'abuse of dominance'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36092441

3 comments

"Virtually every phone maker using Google Android in the European Union has bowed to Google's demands, suppressing competition by other app makers and preventing free choice for consumers,"

- is this really true?

spriggan310 anni fa

If the problem are the apps, it would be interesting to know whether members of the Open Handset Alliance are prevented from shipping phones with app that would compete with Google services on Android. If there is no such constraint, either I didn't get what Google was charged with or the EU commission is once again full of it.

Robin_Message10 anni fa

Ironically, consumers would probably benefit if Google could force handset manufacturers to do more things (like not replacing sensible bits of Android/Play with shite and to provide updates for the hardware lifetime of the phones) rather than less.

That's assuming ignoring second-order effects on innovation and Google's continued benevolence of course, so probably not a good idea, but still.