Digital Marketing Agency, A federal judge has denied a lawsuit
charging Google with forcing handset makers that use the Android operating
system to make its own applications the default option.
Google required companies such as
Samsung and HTC to give its own apps, such as YouTube and Google Search,
preferential treatment on Android-powered phones, and restrict rival apps such
as Microsoft's Bing, claimed consumers. Therefore, consumer rights law firm Hagens
Berman filed the lawsuit on behalf of two Android smartphone users against
Google.
However, U.S. District Judge Beth
Labson Freeman wrote: "Their alleged injuries - supra-competitive prices
and threatened loss of innovation and consumer choice - are not the necessary
means by which defendant is allegedly accomplishing its anti-competitive ends."
She added: "there are no facts
alleged to indicate that defendant’s conduct has prevented consumers from
freely choosing among search products or prevented competitors from
innovating."
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