Why Trump Is Right About the E.U.'s Penalty Against Google
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/business/google-european-union-antitrust-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss But even if the European Union's Microsoft precedent is viewed as sound, Google's competitive situation is different. "There's only a superficial resemblance to Microsoft," said Pinar Akman, an antitrust expert and director of the Center for Business Law and Practice at the University of Leeds in England. Unlike adding a rival media player to the Windows operating system, which at the time was a slow and cumbersome process, adding rival apps to an Android-based phone can be done "in seconds," Ms. Akman said. "The commission put a lot of emphasis on the value of preinstallation. But just because an app is preinstalled doesn't mean consumers are going to use it. It's very easy to download a rival app." Google's photo app, for example, has struggled to compete against Instagram and Snap, even though it comes preinstalled on Android-based phones as part of the Google suite. Christopher L. Sagers, an antitrust professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, agreed that if installing a rival app is as easy as Google claims, "it would make for a pretty solid argument that whatever dominance Google has retained in mobile search has nothing to do with anticompetitive conduct, and rather just reflects its superiority as a product." - - - RELATED: "EU's Latest Massive Fine Against Google Will Hurt Europeans Most of All" - https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/07/18/eus-latest-massive-fine-against-google-will-hurt-europeans-most-of-all --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
