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Not withstanding that Opera, Firefox, and other browsers are available in the Google Play store for android, you can easily change the default search in the Set

• ocdtrekkie 12y ago
  The fact that you can change it is irrelevant. Microsoft learned that the hard way. Most people will use the default.
  • Goronmon 12y ago
    But the landscape has changed quite a bit since the days of Microsoft bunding IE. Changing browsers and search engines is a trivial task nowadays. Plus, Microsoft's problems were tied to Windows with IE. It appears this is just about Search results and/or Chrome, as they outline Android specifically as something they are now investigating.
  • mirashii 12y ago
    It's less irrelevant when the OP used the particular phasing of "mandates", which is quite hyperbolic and doesn't actually forward the discussion, thus the corrections.
  • dragonwriter 12y ago
    > The fact that you can change it is irrelevant. Its not irrelevant; there is clearly a stronger case for anticompetitive behavior if you include an app as default with an OS and prevent alternatives than you if you provide a default but allow alternatives. OTOH, merely allowing alternatives may not be sufficient, depending on other circumstances, to not run afoul of competition laws in some jurisdictions.