The ruling \u201cfails to recognize our significant investment to ensure Android remains open, interoperable and free,\u201d a Google spokesperson said in a statement. The company said it had complied with the initial findings from 2018 and remains \u201cfocused on continued innovation and openness for our users, partners and developers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ruling brings to a close a case that was one of the defining antitrust battles of former Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager\u2019s tenure and reinforces the Commission\u2019s use of traditional competition law to tackle the market power of digital platforms.<\/p>\n
At the heart of the case were agreements requiring smartphone manufacturers seeking access to Google\u2019s Play Store to pre-install Google Search and Chrome, alongside restrictions that the Commission said made it harder for rival search engines and browsers to compete.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The judgment is also expected to shape future abuse-of-dominance cases under Article 102, particularly on how EU competition authorities assess tying practices in digital markets. <\/p>\n
While the bloc now relies increasingly on the Digital Markets Act to regulate large online platforms, the ruling provides another judicial endorsement of the legal principles that underpinned Brussels\u2019 earlier antitrust crackdown on Big Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ruling \u201cfails to recognize our significant investment to ensure Android remains open, interoperable and free,\u201d a Google…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2385],"tags":[8021,45077,3918,2053,11163,1283,446,8874,352,2279,256,354,128,4098,664,451],"class_list":["post-84582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-european-commission","tag-antitrust","tag-article-102","tag-big-tech","tag-competition","tag-competition-antitrust","tag-courts","tag-digital","tag-digital-markets","tag-digital-markets-act","tag-eu-competition","tag-european-commission","tag-margrethe-vestager","tag-markets","tag-mobile","tag-platforms","tag-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}