“Google's Android mobile operating system boosts competition rather than hurts it” the company's general counsel said on Thursday. This statement said in a disclaimer of EU antitrust charges which that it uses the platform to defeat rivals.
US technology group reject of two other EU accusations, claiming that they are unfairly promoting its services of shopping and block the competitors in searches. Google’s general counsel comment on this a week later of this on Google’s official blog.
The Android case could potentially be the most damaging for Google. Android has generate about $31 billion profit and around Rs. 2,07,835 crores in Indian currency and $22 billion profit and Rs. 1,47,495 crores in Indian currency for Google from its beginning in 2008, an Oracle Corp lawyer told a US court in January.
“Android's share in market of European countries is more than 90%” said the European Commission.
Walker said “the Commission has got the whole case wrong, ignoring both the fierce rivalry with iPhone maker Apple, the demands from apps developers and the dangers of modified versions of Android.”
"The response we filed today shows how the Android ecosystem carefully balances the interests of users, developers, hardware makers, and mobile network operators. Android hasn't hurt competition, it's expanded it," he said.
“The case is distorted because the EU competition enforcer does not see Apple's iOS as a rival to Android,” he said.
"To ignore competition with Apple is to miss the defining feature of today's competitive smartphone landscape," Walker said.
"The truth is that Android is today a closed operating system, and any claim to the contrary is disingenuous. Google imposes severe sanctions on those who defy its insistence on conformity," FairSearch lawyer Thomas Vinje said in a statement.
The penalty is about 10% of Google’s global turnover which is around $7.4 billion, for every case in which they found guilty of breaking the EU rules.
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