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

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 9, 2013 @01:25AM 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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Re:News Flash! by demonbug · 2013-04-09 03:34 · Score: 0, Troll

Company makes billions of dollars; wants more. Competitors not happy.
Translation: "They're doing what we would do, but they're a lot better at it than we are."
You never know how the EC will react, tho.
Of course you do. Their thought process goes something like this:
Hmm, is it a European company? No. Is there a European company that might, some day, in some form, offer a competitive product? Yes.
Complaint upheld.