Again, I've already said quite a bit.
Please note the reference to the Redzone app on Verizon isn't exclusive to Apple. It's for Verizon users on Android, too. Verizon and the NFL have (or had) this exclusive offer. So does the EU sue the NFL for not "allowing competition" by making their Redzone service exclusive to Verizon users? In fact, this choice actually
does prevent users on any other network from accessing this. Unlike Europeans on Android, they can't just download a third-party browser or search engine. It's walled-off.
Furthermore, even for Europeans who would used hacked phones with no Google Search/Chrome that Google wouldn't permit to access the Google market, it doesn't matter, because all of those apps are available on secondary app markets since it's a semi-open OS; in fact, there are more apps on these markets because many are prohibited from the official Play Store.
Zero consumer choice was prevented, here. The only thing that was prevented was major corporations like Samsung/HTC/etc and small independent third-party app developers like DuckDuckGo from building their own contracts to pay the telecommunications providers to shove bloatware onto the European consumer's phone (again, Chrome and Google Search are going to be on there no matter what if it's an Android). Meanwhile, those Europeans don't
have to buy an Android. They could opt for an iPhone. During this period they could have opted for a Windows phone (still active) or any of the other operating systems. There's also nothing preventing them from ordering phones from outside these carrier stores that are still perfectly compatible on the carrier itself. This is actually one of the only areas where the tech market favors Europeans over Americans because all of these cheapest Chinese phones have
stronger compatibility with European GSM/4G networks.
Did Google do wrong? Did they prevent competition? Did they restrict consumer choice? No, no, and no. So why are they
really fining Google?
It's a shakedown, dude. It's institutionalized theft. I see it as little different than Chavez "nationalizing" the Chevron oil platforms.