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Non-European here. Does iOS have to do the same thing?

• sigzero 8y ago
  Probably not since Apple doesn't license iOS to anyone else and solely controls it.
  • snrji 8y ago
    Therefore, if Google and all the Android OEMs merged, no antitrust action would be taken with regards to Android apps. Is that correct?
    • ucaetano 8y ago
      You're assuming that the action was based on policy, not on politics.
  • roasm 8y ago
    Does that matter? I would think it would have to do with market share more than any licensing. iOS has ~28% share in the EU. http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe
    • ucaetano 8y ago
      It matters, the EC defined the market as "licensable mobile operating systems", and not "mobile operating systems". If they were looking at "mobile operating systems", their antitrust ruling would make no sense.
• saagarjha 8y ago
  This seems like it would be interesting, given that Google reportedly pays Apple billions of dollars to remain the default on iOS.
• azernik 8y ago
  Definitely not for search engine, since Apple isn't a potential monopolist in that market. Possibly not for browser either, depending on how popular EU competition authorities think a browser/OS pairing needs to be before looking askance at the cross-promotion.
• jdietrich 8y ago
  No, because Apple do not have a dominant position in the smartphone market within the EU. Google pay Apple billions of dollars a year to make Google the default search engine on iOS devices, which was a significant factor in the European Commission's ruling against Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law#Abuse_of_dominance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_competition_law... http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-engine/ http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...