Among 2,000 Android users surveyed in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, around 28% download additional search apps, 29% download at least one new app store, and 23% download at least one alternative web browser to the apps that come pre-installed, the alliance said.
BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO: The European Union's top antitrust regulator, Margrethe Vestager, has made it her mission to stem alleged anti-competitive abuses by big American tech companies, threatening as recently as last month to break up Alphabet Inc's Google.
But a decision in the most important of three antitrust cases against Google – this one aimed at loosening its stranglehold over Android-powered smartphones – is likely to show just how difficult it is, even for a committed trust-buster like Vestager, to dent the power of the US giants.
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