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> In the present case, the General Court notes at the outset that the Commission identified, first of all, four types of relevant market: (i) the worldwide mark

by ethbr0 4y ago

> In the present case, the General Court notes at the outset that the Commission identified, first of all, four types of relevant market: (i) the worldwide market (excluding China) for the licensing of smart mobile device operating systems; (ii) the worldwide market (excluding China) for Android app stores; (iii) the various national markets, within the EEA, for the provision of general search services; and (iv) the worldwide market for non OS-specific mobile web browsers. The Commission went on to find that Google held a dominant position on the first three of those markets.

IanCal 4y ago
Yes, if my wording of "one market" is confusing hopefully this makes it clear: You don't really get in trouble for just growing your business within a market. You get in trouble for abusing your dominant position in one market to influence another. You can see this in the restrictions identified > those contained in ‘distribution agreements’, requiring manufacturers of mobile devices to pre-install the general search (Google Search) and (Chrome) browser apps in order to be able to obtain a licence from Google to use its app store (Play Store); They used their position of having a huge influence with Play Store to force manufacturers to include google search and chrome, which are unrelated. > those contained in ‘anti-fragmentation agreements’, under which the operating licences necessary for the pre-installation of the Google Search and Play Store apps could be obtained by mobile device manufacturers only if they undertook not to sell devices running versions of the Android operating system not approved by Google; They used their position with Android to force manufacturers to push google search and the play store by not letting them even build other devices without approval. > those contained in ‘revenue share agreements’, under which the grant of a share of Google’s advertising revenue to the manufacturers of mobile devices and the mobile network operators concerned was subject to their undertaking not to pre-install a competing general search service on a predefined portfolio of devices. They used their advertising business to force out competitors in search. You can argue this is one market if you want but it's clear this isn't competing on the merits of google search.

by ethbr0 4y ago

IanCal 4y ago

Yes, if my wording of "one market" is confusing hopefully this makes it clear: You don't really get in trouble for just growing your business within a market. You get in trouble for abusing your dominant position in one market to influence another. You can see this in the restrictions identified > those contained in ‘distribution agreements’, requiring manufacturers of mobile devices to pre-install the general search (Google Search) and (Chrome) browser apps in order to be able to obtain a licence from Google to use its app store (Play Store); They used their position of having a huge influence with Play Store to force manufacturers to include google search and chrome, which are unrelated. > those contained in ‘anti-fragmentation agreements’, under which the operating licences necessary for the pre-installation of the Google Search and Play Store apps could be obtained by mobile device manufacturers only if they undertook not to sell devices running versions of the Android operating system not approved by Google; They used their position with Android to force manufacturers to push google search and the play store by not letting them even build other devices without approval. > those contained in ‘revenue share agreements’, under which the grant of a share of Google’s advertising revenue to the manufacturers of mobile devices and the mobile network operators concerned was subject to their undertaking not to pre-install a competing general search service on a predefined portfolio of devices. They used their advertising business to force out competitors in search. You can argue this is one market if you want but it's clear this isn't competing on the merits of google search.