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Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by jahewson on Saturday October 01, 2016 @12:57PM (#12618716)
Google is paying manufacturers to use Google search as the default search engine and to exclude other search engines. The EU sees Google's dominant position in mobile OSs being used to bundle their search engine.

It's hard to deny that there's a stinking parallel to Microsoft paying PC manufacturers to bundle IE and exclude other browsers, which resulted in the famous anti-trust suit.

Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by ocdtrekkie on Saturday October 01, 2016 @03:18PM (#12619438)
A good parallel is the news that came out just yesterday about Google Home: Google will forbid anyone who wants to offer Google Cast/Home integrated devices from offering other digital assistants, like Alexa.

http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/google-home-amazon-echo...

Re:EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practice... by euyyn on Monday October 03, 2016 @12:50AM (#12625566)
Microsoft didn't pay to exclude Netscape, they told OEMs they wouldn't sell them Windows at all if they preinstalled Netscape.