The multinational ensures that alter the balance that brings the operating system to the sector would raise prices, hamper innovation, and reduce the variety of terminals.
Google introduced yesterday their allegations against the statement of objections of the European Commission that in the past month of April, accused the company of abuse of dominant position with its mobile operating system Android. The company has responded that its platform free and open source not only does not harm competition, but rather increases it. "Android has not caused damage to the competition, but that has increased. Is the mobile platform more flexible, and balances the interests of users, app developers, hardware manufacturers and mobile network operators", said in a corporate blog, Kent Walker, senior vice president and general counsel of Google.
The directorate-general for Competition of the EC shall review now the arguments of the american multinational. And if that’s not convincing, it could adopt an opinion by imposing changes in the business practices of Google with Android and punished for their previous abuse, with a penalty of up to 10% of its global turnover.
The rivals of Google claimed yesterday handed to the commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager. "Google says that there is no problem because Android is an open system, but the truth is that it is a closed system and the mobile manufacturers are subjected to many restrictions for its use," said Thomas Vinje, legal counsel for FairSearch, a group of companies that feel disadvantaged by the dominance of Google in some activities.
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Google claims in its defense to the EC, as a proof that it has not damaged the competition,Android has allowed since its launch in 2007 reducing the cost of smartphones (there are from 45 euros, they said) to enable manufacturers to avoid the purchase or the development of operating systems. "All this has facilitated a much greater number of customers access to smart phones," added Walker, who recalled that, currently, more than 24,000 devices than 1,300 brands have Android. "Also, developers, europeans can distribute your apps to more than 1,000 millions of people around the world"
The trustees also warned that alter "the balance" that brings Android would "that the prices go up, it would hamper innovation, reduce the variety and limit the competition."
The response from Google arrives after the 20th of April the EC formally accuse the technology giant of abusing its dominant position by forcing manufacturers and operators of mobile phones and tablets operating with Android to install by default its services, like its search engine and its Chrome browser.
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The company responds that the EC based its accusation on the idea that Android "does not compete" with the mobile operating system Apple’s iOS, something that rejects 89% of the respondents in the market study the case made by Brussels.
Walker showed his "concern" because the EC "underestimate the importance of developers and the dangers of the fragmentation of the mobile ecosystem", as those needed "a stable framework and consistent in order to do their job". Ensured that any manufacturer can download the Android and modify it as you wish", a "flexibility" which makes the operating system vulnerable to fragmentation. And for that reason, he adds, held "agreements of support" with the manufacturers of phones at the same time that they offer to the developers the confidence they need to create compatible applications".
On the criticism of the EC to the application packages that offered by Google, the company argued that "no manufacturer is forced to pre-install any Google application on an Android phone". And he recalled that the Apple iPhone or Windows phone Microsoft "not only do the same thing, but they provide many less options in the apps that come pre-installed".
with regard to the complaints from Brussels on the agreements of Google for the distribution of benefits, Walker noted that there are clauses "legitimate," which, in any case, have been "gradually reduced" in the past two years to "respond to the concerns of the Commission."
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