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The Internet giant now wants to offer users of mobile Android devices a selection of browsers and search engines. […]
For years, the European Union has been pushing Google to abandon the monopoly function and not discriminate against competition. After billions of fine, the American company now agrees to revise the use of Android in Europe. To this end, Android mobile device users will now be offered a selection of browsers and search engines.
Background: For the European Commission, the Chrome browser and Google search engine preinstalled on Android is an unfair competitive advantage over its competitors. Because the users support the provided software is indisputably and do not seek alternatives.
A specific question about preferences preferences could help users to import competing products to their devices via Android.
For new and existing users
According to Kent Walk, executive vice president of Google's general affairs, the browser and search engine choices of Android do not only concern new users, but also existing users. When exactly new options are introduced and what choices are offered, has not yet told Google in its corporate blog.
Marc Al-Hames, general manager of Cliqz – a privacy-friendly alternative search engine – welcomes Google's reluctance to lobby EU antitrust controllers. "The question of whether this really leads to fair competition, in which small suppliers with Google-independent business models have a chance, depends on the choice of browser and search alternatives." The crucial question is whether suppliers Europeans also play a leading role in the selection, otherwise the monopoly position becomes a US duopoly of Google and Microsoft. "
In July 2018, the European Commission fined Google 4.3 billion euros for its Android business model.
* Sonja Kroll and Susanne Gillner are editors at PCtipp.
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