Google Hardly Created Problems For Rivals

Google Android has helped the growth of Facebook in a significant manner

A persistent tragedy of Android is that the mobile operating system of Google, which is a market leader, has kept being better theoretically than in terms of reality. The company has spent over 10 years trying to turn its software into a perfect one, and conceptually, Android is just now as pristinely well-understood as the iOS of Apple.

Almost no one purchases the organization’s idealized version of Android; rather than that, majority of the people purchase a version that has been predigested and chewed up through the supply chain of the phone maker, an intestinal route that is always unable to turn good software into lots of streaming code. For Android powered phones, this typically adds many unnecessary, terrible applications installed by telecoms and by the phone maker itself.

In contrast to that, one may have concluded by having a look at phone, the regulatory bodies claim that the problem of Android is not a large number of preloaded applications- it is too few and it is the mistake of the company. The allegations look logical in the abstract. The company makes the most famous mobile operating system of the world, and a number of its licenses do force phone manufacturers to include many Google applications, even if they are only interested to include Google Play App Store.

On paper, that might constitute unfair “bundling“ — one of the sins done in Microsoft Corporation at its peak in the late 1990s. Still the charges filed by the European authorities miss the untidy truth of life regarding Android, which seems clear to everyone who does a study of the mobile application business: Android powered phones come collaborating with non-Google applications, often frustrating users.

The organization seems incapable to keep most of them away from the devices of people; even when acting in that manner may be helpful for its business. The meteoric growth of Facebook, archrival of Google proves that to us. On April 27, 2016, Facebook announced a blowout earnings report- with most of its advertising revenue on Android phones. The numbers of Facebook demonstrate the main weakness in the case of the European Union: if the grand plan of Google is to actually keep competitors out of Android phones, it is surely doing a bad job out of it.

Representatives for the company and the European Commission refused to share views for this article, citing the present regulatory procedure. The general counsel of Google Kent Walker said the organization would intend to show regulatory bodies that Android has been “good for competition and for consumers.”