Google is preparing for the imposition of a large fine by the European Union, through the European Commission, and the other day I told you that this has been postponed until next week. The reason for postponing the announcement of the fine to be imposed against Google is the visit of American President Donald Trump to Europe, the European Commission being nevertheless very determined to apply a large fine against the company.
Google would have a fine of at least 2.88 billion dollars imposed by the European Commission, the largest ever applied in the European Union to any company, so we would witness a record. The European Commission wants to fine Google due to the fact that the Americans require their partners to offer its services as standard on phones with this operating system, and to impose the search engine Google Search to search the internet.
Google: This is how BIG will be the fine imposed by the EU
Google imposes in Android a varied range of pre-installed applications for the services they offer worldwide, and Android phone manufacturers have complained that this prevents them from offering their own services. Offering a widget to use Google Search directly from the main screen of applications is also something imposed by Google, and the phone manufacturers are not happy with this, although only in China and Russia there are viable alternatives, in the rest of the EU there is no such thing.
"The EU has alleged that Google strong-arms phone makers into pre-installing Google Search and the company's Chrome internet browser on their mobile devices by bundling them with its popular Play store for Android applications, and at times paying them to pre-install Google exclusively. … it's expected that the Commission will fine Google more than $2.88 billion USD.”
Google should also make major changes in the Android operating system following the application of this fine, because the European Commission will also ask for the solution of the problems that were its basis, but the users have the most to lose. Unfortunately for those from Google, it seems that the fine has already been established, and the European Commission will only have to announce it next week, and it will be challenged before Android is substantially changed.
