"Android has created more options, not less"

The technological giant Google Wednesday responded to a fine of 4.343 million euros (5.064 million dollars) for illegal practices with its Android operating system in order to reinforce the predominance of its search engine.

Sundar Pichai Google CEO, said in a post that his mobile platform Android offered more options to users with 1,300 brands that have adopted it in 24,000 models of appliances. [19659003] "The decision ignores the fact that Android phones are competing phones with iOS something that 89 percent of respondents confirmed in the Commission's own market research.It also forgets the wide choice that Android offers to thousands of mobile phone manufacturers and network operators who create and sell Android devices, "the statement said.

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to manufacturers who pre-installed their search services (Google Search) and their browser ( Chrome ) as a condition for granting them license to use their application store ( Play Store ). In addition, he added, he made certain payments to major manufacturers and operators of mobile networks provided that they install their default search engine, while preventing them from selling smartphones that had alternative versions of them. Android not approved by Google.

Google has been offering free Android to manufacturers since 2007 and has invested billions of dollars over the last decade to make Android what it is today.

"This investment makes sense for us as we can offer phone manufacturers the ability to pre-charge a set of popular Google apps (such as Search, Chrome, Play, Maps and Gmail ) , some of which guarantee that the phone "works" from the outset, and that generate revenue based on the ads.The phone manufacturers do not need to include our services and they are also free to pre -install the applications of our competitors with ours, "says the CEO of Google.