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Competitors Complain To EC That Free Android Is a 'Trojan Horse'

Posted by timothy on from the takes-exactly-one-to-know-exactly-one dept.

First time accepted submitter DW100 writes "Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle have taken it upon themselves to moan to the European Commission about Google's Android dominance, which they say is an underhand bid to control the entire mobile market. The firms are part of the FairSearch group, which has just filed a complaint that Google is using Android as a 'Trojan Horse' to take control of the mobile market and all the related advertising revenue. Microsoft would of course know all about this, being at the end of several similar anti-competitive complaints in the past."

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  1. F**k First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    F**k Microsoft Orcle and Nokia

    1. Re:F**k First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      F**k Microsoft Orcle and Nokia

      Ummmm.... No thanks.

      Really? Not even with, say, a jagged, rusty dildo?

    2. Re:F**k First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whoa! Slow down there cowboy...

    3. Re:F**k First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      There aren't enough antibiotics in the world to treat the diseases these STD ridden companies are carrying after decades of fucking their customers over and screwing government agencies to get what they want, mainly to fuck over more customers.

  2. Re:what is stopping them from doing the same thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you don't like it, release your own free operating system where you package your search engine it.

    Google is packaging its entire search engine on Android?! No wonder my Samsung Galaxy Nexus only has a battery life of 10 hours!

  3. Re:Phones: More than communication by Quakeulf · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am going to take a wild guess:

    The user?

  4. Re:News Flash! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They could make Google refund users the money they paid for Android.

  5. Re:Phones: More than communication by mattr · · Score: 4, Funny

    : : : >>---------->
                    =:o
                      |=//
                _ //
    W O O S H H H

  6. Horses are like ponies... by BenSchuarmer · · Score: 3, Funny

    OMG PONIES!!! Who doesn't like ponies?