[jontcalho]

Google seems to be singled out and especially targeted by these antitrust allegation and investigations, I mean in the larger sense not just here where it's mostly a protectionist outcome as the fact that they technically don't have a "dominant market position" at ~50% market share is the least of it.

I'm curious How a ruling like that gels with the fact that on an iPhone (the other half of the market) all services and apps are dictated by Apple and can not be altered, while on Android not only they can be but the whole OS is free, Yandex could have commissioned their own hardware like many others do and they curiously haven't complained about Apple.

Same goes for the search allegation,the argument there is that Google should feature results from other search engines on their own site! Which is mind Boggling, no one is convinced Facebook or twitter or anyone should include content from other website but somehow Google is different. Google isn't the network layer that one must go through it to interact with the web, they are no "gatekeeper" not technically or metaphorically yet somehow politicians are convinced they are.

This seems like field distortion to me that somehow regulator were sold on to (even excluding this Russian example).

[ocdtrekkie]

It's about dominant position. Having the sort of stifling monopoly that Google has opens it up to additional regulation, just like Microsoft was before it. Apple is a niche market still, to this day, and isn't under as much scrutiny.

[jontcalho]

First the term "stifling monopoly" is loaded, and they definitely don't have it in Russia. 2nd they can't have a "stifling monopoly" since they are just another node on the graph, you don't need them to "internet", there is always another site, another app.

[ocdtrekkie]

See my response to other commenter on parent comment.

[bitmapbrother]

But, Google isn't the dominant Search engine in Russia. Yandex is.

[ocdtrekkie]

It's not a search monopoly, it's an Android monopoly. And they're abusing that monopoly to increase their market share in search.

You're looking at the wrong monopoly!

[unprepare]

They cant have a monopoly on their own product, thats ludicrous.

'apple has a monopoly on the iphone'

'GM has a monopoly on cadillac'

'BMW has a monopoly on the 3-series'

Of course they have a 'monopoly' on android, android is their product. Android has captured 64%[0] of the smartphone market in russia, this is again not a monopoly. A monopoly would capture 100% of the market, thats the definition of a monopoly.

I'm eager to hear what market Google has captured 100% of, because its not search or smartphones

[0]http://www.statista.com/statistics/262174/market-share-held-...

[gress]

The definition of a monopoly is not capturing 100% of the market.