Google threatens $ 7.45 billion penalty: Will the EU prohibit pre-installed apps?

The EU Commission is considering a possible antitrust case against Google for its Android license condition. The companies threaten 7.4 billion US dollars penalty.
Requires Google by the manufacturers too much?




Subject of the investigation is Google's default to equipment manufacturers to pre-install various apps and services of the company and prominent place - unless they want to use the Google app store. Google abusing its dominant position to prevail upon alternatives in the Android ecosystem, the appeal of some competitors, the EU Commission now pursues.
Should start a process and Google are found guilty, the group threatened a significant fine. This can be up to 10 percent of annual sales in 2015 amounted to, or approximately 7.4 billion US dollars.
Abused Google its supremacy?
"Our concern is that Google preinstall its specification to equipment manufacturers and providers, a bunch of apps [??], one of the main routes could have cut off, over the new apps to reach consumers," EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said Reuters According.
However, the EU recognizes that many users have become accustomed to certain apps and this would like to have installed. "We will check the bundling [apps], but the bundling itself is not necessarily the problem," said Vestager and continues: "It depends on how it is made; but that is the subject of our investigation which is still ongoing ". Preinstalled apps do not want the EU therefore prohibit in principle.

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