The authority of European competition challenges the pre-installation of Google applications on devices that use the Android operating system, limiting users’ access to other applications.
Google’s problems with the European Commission in relation to competition issues, are about to have new developments. According to sources quoted by the site Politico and the New York Times , European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, should proceed on Wednesday with a complaint against the operating system mobile Android.
the Commission is concerned that the terms and conditions that Google imposes on mobile phone manufacturers to use the Android system, might be to give an unfair advantage to Google applications and to limit the access of . consumers to other Apps
“our concern is that, by requiring manufacturers and operators who install in mobile phones a Google application group – rather than leaving them to decide independently that applications should disponibilizar- Google is to stop one of the main ways that new applications have to manage to reach consumers “, he defended the European Commissioner in a speech made on Monday in Amsterdam.
Source Google, quoted by Reuters, denies that the internet giant is forcing manufacturers to accept exclusive contracts and recalls that continues in negotiations with the European Commission on the various issues raised in recent years in relation to competition issues.
“Anyone can use Android with or without Google applications. Manufacturers can decide how to use the Android system and consumers always have the last word on the applications you want to use, “he said in a statement the spokesman of Google, Mark Jansen.
Write The New York Times that despite the position taken by Google, the new complaint the European Commission against the Android system – which feeds 77 percent of mobile phones in Europe – should represent a strong blow to the company at a time trying to strengthen its market position mobile communications.
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