[kictanet] [isoc_ke] EU hits Google with Anti-Trust complaint

[Ahmed Mohamed Maawy]

This is a tricky issue in many ways:

   1. Android is an appealing product to put onto a Smart Phone platform.
   Its not only designed for a Smart Phone, its designed also for TV boxes,
   and other appliances. It is the only open platform that is out there that
   is easily accessible and can be tuned to work in ways many manufacturers
   would like it to work.
   2. Google is not doing this for free. Its doing this because it wants to
   roll out its services to the manufacturer who may want to receive its
   "free" product to kick start their operations.
   3. Rival platforms face some problems Android has solved: Either it
   being running on costly hardware (iPhone's iOS) or it being not lucrative
   as an option to drive hardware sales (Windows, Blackberry, etc).
   4. Infact the platforms like iOS, Blackberry, Windows have the same
   issues: They either push iCloud (Apple), BlackBerry services or Bing
   (Microsoft) as bundled products.
   5. Various open attempts have been developed but adoption has brought
   them down - a good example of FirefoxOS by Mozilla. FirefoxOS would have
   solved this exact same problem. Is it then that the corporates are not
   willing to invest in such platforms?

Ahmed

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:50 AM, WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Happy Furahi Day!
>
> Thank you for sharing the piece!
>
> "One big difference in U.S. antitrust law is that the ultimate barometer
> of whether something is illegal is whether it negatively affects the
> consumer—for example, by raising the price of a product or service. That
> would make it difficult to prosecute Google for antitrust behavior, since
> the vast majority of its products are free. The European Union, however,
> doesn’t need to make that argument—it’s free to find Google’s behavior
> illegal regardless of what it costs."
>
> ISOC KE during the next Internet Governance Forum, the Competition
> Authority would be a great guest to "demystify this Anti-Trust, Dominance
> terms and practical application.
>
> Today's local tech start-up may be less concerned, however, it is the next
> global tech giant soon.
>
> Blessed day.
>
> Regards/Wangari
>
> ---
> Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored
> Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on
> Earth".
>
>
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> On Fri, 22/4/16, Ali Hussein via isoc <isoc at lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
>
>  Subject: [isoc_ke] EU hits Google with Anti-Trust complaint
>  To: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke, ISOC at lists.my.co.ke
>  Date: Friday, 22 April, 2016, 3:31
>
>  Listers
>  This should be interesting.
>  EU hits Google
>  EU officials
>   say Google forces phone makers and carriers to
>  install its services.
>  For many Android
>  users, one of the appealing things about Google’s mobile
>  operating system is that it is an open ecosystem—anyone
>  can install or modify it, since it is open source, and users
>  can run any apps they want, something they can’t do on
>  Apple’s iOS devices. But the European Union doesn’t see
>  it that way. To the EU, Android is a just tool that Google
>  uses to expand its mobile and search
>  monopolies.Read on:-
>  http://fortune.com/2016/04/21/eu-google-antitrust/Ali
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