From the article: Complainant FairSearch said Google was hindering the development of versions that might lead to new operating systems able to compete with An

From the article: Complainant FairSearch said Google was hindering the development of versions that might lead to new operating systems able to compete with Android, despite launching it as an open source project. Is this the basis of the charges? That Google, by requiring the bundling of its own (free) apps and search engine, is preventing some obscure company from potentially developing a potentially competitive OS? EU seems to regard Google's insistence on a uniform OS with certain basic services common to every device that calls itself Android as "harmful to the consumer". Even though more forking of Android would lead to more fragmentation, which most of us would agree is bad for the consumer. I fail to see what crime Google has committed, other than to run afoul of a bunch of bureaucrats who have nothing better to do than regulate, tax, and sue private companies for being too successful, at the behest of tiny competitors who are unable or unwilling to succeed through innovation.