The raid comes out of a joint complaint made by popular Korean mobile internet firms NHN Corp and Daum Communications, stating that Android phones’ default use of the Google search engine makes it nigh impossible for other services to compete. Google fired back by stating it does not require manufacturers to use its software on Android handsets. It has since pledged to work with the KFTC to work through the matter. [Reuters, WSJ]
Peter
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 3:03 PMWhat about Apple’s insistance that you buy music and apps from their online store? Doesn’t seem much different to Google being default search engine, just they’re getting directly compensated…
Michael
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 8:18 PMYou could also say that you can’t get a iphone that runs Android or WP7, yet you can get a HTC or a Sammy that does that. (Sure might be different models but still same manufactuer with more than one OS. Someone needs to launch a Anti-trust case against Apple.