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Telset.id, Jakarta – The European Union has indeed fined US $ 5 billion or about Rp. 72 billion to Google for violating antitrust laws or Android operating system ] antitrust . However, there is an interesting story behind the scale of the fine that the search giant has to accept.
Reported by Engadget Monday (07/23/2018), a report from a trusted source claimed that Google briefly proposed to the European Union to change its policy on the Android operating system in August 2017.
At that time, in the presence of the European Union, Google negotiated by proposing to loosen the restrictions in the systems contracts. Android operation. In the negotiations, Google plans to distribute applications on the Android operating system in two different ways.
Unfortunately, Google's attempts at that time failed. Sources say European officials have no choice but to fine Google. They badume, what is offered by Google is too late.
Relative to this news, Google has not yet provided confirmation to date. As is known, the EU punishes Google for allegedly carrying out monopoly commercial practices on Android devices. The fine was announced at a press conference by the European Commissioner for Commercial Competition, Margrethe Vestager
"Google must comply with EU rules." They became the company dominant.Google broke the rules since 2011. "
Google is accused of abusing the dominance of Android on the smarphone market by integrating innate applications. In addition, the EU alleges that Google has closed the possibilities of its competitors by forcing major smartphone manufacturers including Samsung and Huawei, to install the Google search engine and Google Chrome . said that he would appeal the verdict. They said that Android has provided a lot of options for everyone.
"Android has given more options to everyone," said Google spokesman Al Verney. (SN / FHP)
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