Google to Europe: ‘Slow down Android will affect all of them, except to us’ – CNET in Spanish

Google responded to Europe by the charges of alleged dominant position of Android.

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MADRID — Google has officially responded to the European Commission on charges that accuse him of having a dominant position with the Android operating system.

The company said in a statement that, since the birth of the operating system in 2007, has worked with the premise of do it free, and it does not consider that limit it will affect you directly, but that would make the whole ecosystem around it.

“Android has not caused damage to the competition, but he has done it to increase. Android is the mobile platform more flexible, balancing the needs of thousands of manufacturers and operators, millions of app developers and billions of consumers. Altering this balance would cause prices to rise, it would hamper innovation, reduce the variety and would limit the competition,” said Kent Walker, vice president and general counsel of Google, in the statement sent to CNET, in English this Thursday.

1. To give free software licenses Android to the manufacturers to change the installation of the Google Search.
2. Prevent the sale of devices with other forks — open interfaces based on Android and that in turn include apps Google.
3. financial Incentives to manufacturers to include Google Search.

Google now explains that basically his work since 2007 has been to create standards to avoid fragmentation — even most — of the operating system, that would end up causing problems to the users and the manufacturers. The company illustrates the problems of a free platform in a video (below) released only to prove his innocence in this case.

For the company, the distribution of products such as the Google Search in combination with Google Play, allows you to offer your application package, free of charge, in time — for example — to charge a license fee in advance, which for the company would simply mean the increase of prices in general and a huge problem for manufacturers and users.

“This free distribution is a very cost-efficient for all, as it reduces the price for the phone manufacturers and for consumers, allowing at the same time to continue making important investments in Android and Play,” explained the company in the statement delivered to the European Commission.

Google said that no manufacturer was required to pre-install any application on the phone, although they do offer the package of apps for that when you purchase a new device, you have a set of core services known. “The competition of Android, including the Apple iPhone and Microsoft Windows, not only do the same but provide a lot less options in the apps that come pre-installed on devices” said the company.

“The point of view of the Commission could affect the balance and send a signal to involuntary order to favor the closed platforms versus open platforms. This would mean less innovation, fewer choices, less competition and higher prices. That would not be a bad result for us. Such an outcome would be negative for developers, to handset manufacturers, operators and, most importantly, for consumers,” said the company.

This year, Google has received in Europe accusations of prioritizing your service Shopping above the competition in search and search for other complaints also related with its ads system.