https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/03/google-gets-more-time-to-respond-to-eu-antitrust-charges/
I don't think what you're advocating Google do would make it past the antitrust folks (in the EU or the USA).
Things are different when you have market power in one area (you can't just use that power in other areas)...
Cheers,
Scott.
Alphabet (née Google) has been given yet another extension to file its respond to charges in Europe that it has misused the dominance of its Android mobile platform to lock out competition by promoting its own services over and above others.
Reuters reported the extension today, which gives the company until the last day of this month to file its rebuttal, and follows another extension last month — at the time touted as Google’s last — which pushed the deadline from September 7 to September 20. The original EC deadline for Google’s response was in April so we’re heading for six months later already at this stage (meanwhile the EC’s initial probe of Android complaints dates back to April 2015).
That said, it is common for competition investigations to involve extensions, although — from the complainant point of view — the risk is of the issue being kicked so far into the long glass that any corrective measures come too late.
In the case of the Android antitrust probe, which has focused on complaints that Google uses the OS as a ‘trojan horse’ to embed its own apps and services into smartphone devices at the expense of rivals’, there’s a very real risk of a substantially negative outcome for Google’s business in Europe. Alphabet could face a fine of up to 10 per cent of its annual turnover — which is close to $75BN — if the EC antitrust charges are upheld against it.
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I don't think what you're advocating Google do would make it past the antitrust folks (in the EU or the USA).
Things are different when you have market power in one area (you can't just use that power in other areas)...
Cheers,
Scott.