Renewed calls for Google to sell Chrome has sparked the demands on the company again to sell Android. A manager at Murea, a French smartphone startup, said today that breaking off business is the only way to end Google's “Cycle of Domination”.
The appeal will be submitted to a court on Friday of the US Justice Ministry (DOJ). The submission confirmed a suggestion So that Google sells its Chrome browser and sold to a competitor to open the alleged search engine monopoly of the Tech giant.
“Due to its sheer size and unrestricted power, Google has consumers and companies of a fundamental promise that was due to the public In the submission.
The accusation reflects joint complaints about Chromes dominance.
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In February Chrome made two thirds of the Global browser market. Next was Safari with 17.99%, Edge (5.33%), Firefox (2.62%) and Samsung Internet (2.3%). Opera, Europe's largest local browser, was only 2.09%.
The plan of the doj aims to improve the field. But Rik Viergever, COO at Murena, a French company who first builds smartphones, believes that the new proposals alone are not sufficient.
“As a supporter of Data Privacy lawyer, I welcome the DoJ's decision to force Google to sell Chrome. However, this should only be the beginning,” he said. “I want Google to sell the Android operating system.”
The government has left this option open, but initially asks Google to change Android's business practices. If these measures do not contaminate Google's market dominance, the Doj can urge the operating system to be sold.
Viergever wants the dishes to do more to facilitate Google's “strangling price” for consumers and competitors.
“Google can only offer Android free of charge because it benefits them in so many other types and markets,” he said. “This makes it almost impossible for other providers on the market market of the operating system to compete competitions, and so the rule cycle continues.”
The attitude of Viergever matches Malenas mission. The main products of the company are “Degoogled” smartphones as data protection-centered disruptors for the Apple-Google Mobile Duopol.
Use the devices /and/OSPresent An open source alternative to Android oriented by privacy-oriented open source alternative. Murena set up the software to escape the bonds of Google's operating system.
Viergever argues that the sale of Chrome would lead to better products.
“It is time to open the market for innovation and competition so that users can benefit from a competitive industry in which companies compete with products that benefit consumers, and not with a large company like Google who holds the entire power,” he said.
