The fine imposed on Google in 2018 by the European Commission remains in place. This means that Google has to pay more than four billion. Google was fined for abuse of power by its own search engine. The company challenged the fine, but was unsuccessful.
Required to use Chrome
The European Commission imposed a record fine on Google in 2018 for abusing its dominant position with Android. Google is the maker of the Android operating system, the operating system that runs on smartphones from Samsung, OnePlus, OPPO, Sony and Xiaomi, among others. However, because Google is also the maker of the browser Chrome, and many other apps, they can be a big step ahead of competitors. If Google will abuse this, then according to the European Commission this is not fair. This is because, among other things, no monopoly of one manufacturer may arise. However, according to this European Commission, Google was guilty of abuse of power in 2018 by forcing smartphone manufacturers to pre-install Chrome on smartphones.
This was the reason to impose a fine on Google, a fine that eventually amounted to 4.34 billion euros. However, Google disagreed and filed a lawsuit. However, the EU ‘General Court’, a judicial body of the Court of Justice of the EU, agrees with the European Union.
More abuse of power
In addition to requiring manufacturers to install Chrome, Google has also paid smartphone manufacturers to ensure they install the Google app. In addition, manufacturers were not allowed to make competing Android operating systems if Google did not give permission for this.
According to the General Court of the EU, all this ensures that there were sufficient reasons to impose the fine on Google. The fine has been reduced from 4.34 billion euros to 4.125 billion euros.
Small amount, pin is allowed
Then briefly about this 4.125 billion euros. That amount sounds hallucinatory in the ears of many people, but for Google it is a different story. It is estimated that in 2021 the company will have about 250 billion euros achieved in turnover.
– Thanks for information from Androidworld. Source